Summary

THE VITAL LINK

Source Archive Films by Getty Images
Title: THE VITAL LINK
File Number: LAC-48 16mm Beta SP
Color: Color
Type: Educational
Year: 1970s
Description: Color 1970s Instructional film on how to best react to a medical emergency in the days before "911". Examples of appropriate responses are illustrated by several realistic (and yet at times unintentinally funny) dramatizations of accidents emergencies in which people both skillfully treat the sick and injured whom they encounter, and call the paramedics. Directed by Jim Taratan. . 00:34:00:00 Color 1970s Boy riding skateboad down suburban street. 01:11:00:00 Color 1970s Black man and his liitle boy fishing from rowboat on lake. 01:27:00:00 Color 1970s Housewife woman polishing table and talking to her whining boy baby climbs onto the table and drinks the bottle of furniture polish. [Baby drinks poison]. 02:56:00:00 Color 1970s Two Latino men unloading and lifting a very heavy household appliance from the back of a truck one of the men starts gasping and wincing in pain as he has a heart attack (this can also read as a back injury) at 04:36:00, his friend and wife help him to lie down as he gasps and falls unconscious his friend administers CPR mouth-to-mouth resuscitation at 08:59:00, this continues, with assistance from paramedics. 03:23:00:00 Color 1970s Man and woman eating at an umbrella table outside of fast food joint restaurant, woman begins choking on piece of her hot dog frankfurter at 05:06:00, man runs over to her and administers the Heimlich Maneuver, she coughs up the food. 03:44:00:00 Color 1970s Boy riding skateboard down suburban street is hit by a car at intersection at 04:15:00, a pedestrian and the driver rush to the injured boy's aid good, realistic sequence at 07:12:00, the woman and driver wrap the boy in a jacket and the paramedics arrive, they examine and treat the boy, calling in a report on field radio. 05:59:00:00 Color 1970s "911" call, VS: shaken man in telephone booth calls the operator and reports an accident operator woman connects him to fire department dispatcher. 06:43:00:00 Color 1970s Woman holding her baby makes a telephone call to a hospital emergency room doctor about a medical emergency he gives her instructions. 09:55:00:00 Color 1970s Medevac helicopter lands near shore of lake paramedics jump out and examine unconscious injured man, strap him onto stretcher. 10:34:00:00 Color 1970s Woman gets out of her car and walks toward hospital emergency room entrance marked by "emergency" sign. 11:10:00:00 Color 1970s Paramedic man gives instruction lesson to small classroom of people regarding CPR the people then practice giving CPR mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to dummies. 12:20:00:00 Color 1970s Woman instructs small group of people in classroom on first aid procedures, they practice treating leg injuries on each other. 13:00:00:00 Color 1970s Injured person is lifted off of street and onto gurney by paramedics paramedics load gurney into back of ambulance. 13:45:00:00 Color 1970s Medevac helicopter lands near hospital parking lot paramedics unload injured sick man on gurney and roll the gurney toward the hospital emergency room entrance
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