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Assessment of School Emergency Medical Services' (EMS) Needs and Evaluation of a School Trauma Awareness Program

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Jean T. May
Jean T. May
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From the Evaluation, Survey and Health Research Corp. 5409 Beacon St., Pittsburgh PA, USA.
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The objective of this study was to evaluate a school Trauma Awareness (TA) program conducted by the Health Education Center (HEC) of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania under contract with the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Institutes. A total of 44 presentations were made before 3545 persons dealing with school children in seven counties of western Pennsylvania. The TA program was undertaken because: l) the leading cause of death among school-age children in the USA during the 1970s was accidents, 60% of which occurred on school premises or going to and from school; and 2) there was a need for improvement of EMS in the local schools.

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Part I: Research-Education-Organization
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 1 , supplement S1: Disaster Resuscitology , 1985 , pp. 95 - 96
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1985

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