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4-A Friday, Oct. 11, 1974 THE SHREVEPORT TIMES
Medical Society to Offer
Emergency Aid Classes
By Elaine King
Of The Times Staff
The Shreveport Medical
Society has volunteered to
conduct training in
emergency medical care for
ambulance drivers, law of-ficers
and others who are
regularly called on in
emergencies.
The local society is the first
in Louisiana to offer such a
course, according to Hank
Bruns, administrator of
Emergency Medical Services
in the state.
Physicians will offer lec-tures
to 55 persons now enrol-led
in the 81-hour course at
Confederate Memorial
Medical Center.
Since the program's incep-tion
in Louisiana in 1972,
more than 1,000 persons have
enrolled in Emergency
Medical Training, Bruns said.
There are more than 500
registered EMT personnel in
the state, "the vast majority
in Northwest Louisiana," he
added.
The concentration of
trained personnel in this area,
he said is "directly at-tributable
to the concern" of
professional medical person-nel
and the public in the area.
The courses will be on a
continuing basis, according to
Dr. Albert Hand, medical
society president. Dr. Steve
Kirkikis is course coor-dinator.
Bruns credited the two doc-tors
with being the driving
force behind the local
society's agreement to con-duct
the EMT course in con-junction
with the state
Emergency Training Service.
Purpose of the program is
to extend emergency medical
care to the scene of an ac-cident
to aid victims to sur-vive
until they arrive at a
hospital to receive medical
treatment. Emergency
medical procedures for heart
attack victims are included.
Persons enrolled in the cur-rent
course include firemen,
policemen, a deputy sheriff,
Red Cross workers and am-bulance
drivers, according to
Larry McKenzie, regional
training coordinator for state
Emergency Medical Services.
The course has been taught
at CMMC before and was
previously conducted through
the department of surgery un-der
supervision of Dr. Tony
W. Baskin.
EMT courses are also being
taught in the area at Minden
by Dr. Sidney Pittman and in
Natchitoches by Dr. Joseph
Thomas. A course is slated
for Ruston under Dr. William
Lumpkin.
The Emergency Services
System is among federal
requirements for states to
receive federal highway
funds, Bruns noted, and the
federal guidelines are the im-petus
behind the EMT
program.
Object Description
| Title | Medical Society to Offer Emergency Aid Classes |
| Creator |
King, Elaine T. |
| Subject |
Shreveport Medical Society (Shreveport, La.) Continuing Education Emergency medical services |
| Publisher |
Shreveport Times |
| Date | 1974-10-11 |
| Identifier | See reference URL on the navigation bar. |
| Source | Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport Medical Library (http://lib.sh.lsuhsc.edu) |
| Language | en |
| Relation | http://www.louisianadigitallibrary.org/cdm4/index_LSUHSCS_NPC.php?CISOROOT=/LSUHSCS_NPC |
| Coverage-Spatial | Shreveport (Caddo, La.) |
| Rights | Physical rights are retained by Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws. |
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