1974: Paramedic UHF Telemetry Radio Development Overview of EKG telemetry/voice radios over time. These radios made voice contact with a base station physician, and transmission of the patients EKG in real time possible. Over the next decade, as physician confidence in the paramedics ability to read EKG rhythms grew, most systems moved away from requiring real time
Eugene Nagel, MD At a 1964 meeting of the International Rescue and First Aid Association, Dr. Eugene Nagel met some rescue officers who told him that despite their good CPR, all their patients kept dying. Mobile intensive coronary care units combining CPR, resuscitative drugs and early defibrillation were being tried in a few American
