What is the history of Ems?
Do a Google search and you will get plenty of great information. How about in your area? Who had the first EMS service? What types of calls does your service run? How many a day? Month? Use pictures in your presentation. Ask around, do any of your co-workers have old pictures of themselves or of old rigs? Find pictures of old ambulances to show how we have changed from horse drawn carriages to funeral homes to what you have now. Next, start explaining the equipment you carry and show how to use it. As you are demonstrating its use, tell the children when we would use it and why. Example; as you are showing your traction splint, tell the children that the femur is the longest and strongest bone in the body. See if anyone knows how much force it would take to break your femur and ways it could be fractured. Check with your hospital to see if they have any old x-rays of a fractured femur to show the kids. What other types of splints do you carry? Show how to use them as well. If the group
