Physio-Control Equipment Timelines

[Jean-Marc Dugas]

For those interested in the Physio-Control history and who would like to have a reference to Physio-Control product timelines, here is the link to the Physio-Control timeline from 1955 to the present.

Physio-Control Timeline 1955 – Present

Physio-Control Timeline 1955 – Read more about lifepak, defibrillator, monitor, system, introduced and portable.

www.yumpu.com

According to this, assuming that my 54XL was in service for 10 years, 1976 - 1986, era-appropriate pre-hospital Physio-Control equipment would include the Lifepak 5 defibrillator (1976), Lifestat 100 (1983) portable non-invasive BP monitor, and the VSM-3 (1983) Vital sign monitor.

 

[Jean-Marc Dugas]

Lifepak 5 --- Lifestat 100 --- VSM-3

 

[John ED Renstrom]

That is unless your car was owned by a basic life support service. Which there were way more in 1976 then there were advanced life support services.

 

[Jean-Marc Dugas]

That is unless your car was owned by a basic life support service. Which there were way more in 1976 then there were advanced life support services.

I am looking at equipping the car to reflect the mid 80s where ALS was more common.

 

[John ED Renstrom]

I think you were across the country way ahead of us on getting advance car in the field. We were still a basic service here in the 90s. It only been advanced life support the last ten years.

 

[Jean-Marc Dugas]

I cannot speak for the other jurisdictions, but in New Brunswick, we could have the service's Medical Director sign off on what we called Delegated Medical Skills. This allowed us to apply these specific skills under their license where they would have otherwise been out of scope.