07/04/2026
"The fate of the wounded rests in the hands of the one who applies the first dressing." That sentence is 127 years old, and it is still the whole job.
For the country's 250th birthday, we published the full history of American EMS: how every war from the Revolution to Afghanistan sent a lesson home, and how those lessons became the tourniquet, the traction splint, the medevac helicopter, the trauma center, and the whole blood riding on ambulances today. Freedom House, Room 4, Red Duke, the golden hour, all of it.
Read it here: https://shop.pacificbiomedical.com/blogs/clinical-resources/history-of-ems-in-america
