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- From: Kevin.Agard@f94.n343.z1.fidonet.org (Kevin Agard)
- Newsgroups: misc.emerg-services
- Subject: Re: Afa training..
- Message-ID: <721871487.F00064@remote.halcyon.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 15:50:00 -0800
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- MS|| WJV> Red Cross Prehospital
- || WJV> medicine has evolved dramatically over the past 20 years. AFA
- was, in
- || WJV> it's time, the standard of care. This was at a time when
- ambulance
- || WJV> crews basically ran "scope and swoop" operations. Although If
- you do
- || WJV> want to help others the answer to your question should be
- obvious. As
- || WJV> yourself this: If you were lying in the street critically
- injured, wh
- || WJV> would you want taking care of you, someone with 40 hours of
- training
- || WJV> (AFA), or someone with triple that training (EMT).
-
-
- Mike,
-
- The above statement was a quote of a message I had sent to someone and
- I
- am responsible for it's content. I will therefore address your post.
-
- I was NOT putting ARC down, nor do I think ARC is out of touch. I am in
- fact an ARC instructor, IT, and past Safety Service Director.
-
- I belies that the AFA course is still a useful course and has it's
- place
- in the pre-hospital environment. That place however, IMHO, is NOT in
- the
- back of an ambulance. As I stated in the complete original post, AFA is
- fine for a First Responder (almost, be the lacking issues are being
- address in the next course update). The public however, has come to
- expect, as is their right, that the personnel crewing an EMS ambulance
- be trained to a certain level. I believe that minimum is now EMT-A. If
- you doubt this fact, Try a little survey in front of your local
- supermarket on Saturday morning. Just ask passersby what level they
- THINK are crewing their local ambulance. The answer might surprise you.
- I actually did this once to prove a point to someone. Of the people who
- had an opinion 87% believed and expected at least an EMT.
-
-
- Regards,
-
- KMA
-
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