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learned that only 4 percent survived. Petitioner traveled around
the country and visited other emergency medical services (EMS) to
determine whether improvements in the San Francisco EMS systems
could be made. After undertaking these studies, petitioner put
together a proposal for the City of San Francisco to revamp the
EMS system. One specific part of the proposal focused on the
need to get defibrillators to the people suffering from cardiac
arrest sooner, for example by putting defibrillators on
firetrucks.
After petitioner’s plan was approved by the board of
supervisors, the department of public health, and the San
Francisco Fire Department, petitioner approached her supervisors
at UCSF. The university created the Center for Prehospital
Research and Training (CPRT) as a structure for petitioner to
work in and continue her research. In 1987, petitioner became
the director of CPRT. CPRT taught emergency preparedness and
cardiac pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) to the public and studied
prehospital cardiac arrest treatment. Petitioner’s main role as
director of CPRT centered on research.
During her years as director of CPRT, petitioner
successfully wrote research grant proposals and contract
proposals for training firefighters in medical procedures,
training emergency medical technicians and paramedics for
ambulances, training school teachers in CPR, training school
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