Mobile Physician Command

Abstract

The Miami (Fla) Emergency Care system, first to make regular use of radio telemetry of electrocardiograms to hospital-based physicians, now also employs physicians who, while moving freely about in their normal professional practices, supplement and occasionally replace the hospital physicians. The expansion of this emergency care system, accomplished by belt-carried walkie-talkie radio, frees the system from dependence on the hospitalbase station and elevates the level of care. This medical command model is applicable to practically all communities. (JAMA230:255-258, 1974)