Moscow ambulance station. From origin to modern times

Abstract

This article is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the Ambulance and Medical Emergency Care Station n. a. A. S. Puchkov in Moscow. Alexander Sergeyevich Puchkov, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Honored Doctor of the RSFSR, steadily led her from 1923 to 1952. The data presented in the articles of Mr. Puchkov served as the basis for comparing indicators about the station’s activities during its formation and the modern ambulance and emergency medical services in Moscow. Some features, characteristics and conditions for the provision of emergency and emergency medical care in Moscow in the year 1926 are shown. So, for example, the number of brigades increased by 68.7 times (from 15 in 1926 to 1,031 in 2018). The average time of arrival of the brigade for an accident both in 1926 and in 2018 is 10–12 minutes long. The share of calls by ambulance teams to children under 15 years of age has also increased significantly. The analysis of performance over the years has made it possible to trace the development of the ambulance station from the time of its creation to the present day. The fundamental principles laid down by Alexander S. Puchkov remain in the ambulance work at the present time. Doctors and paramedics of ambulance and emergency medical care teams continue to promptly provide medical care to all those in need, guided by many provisions that were developed and implemented over 90 years ago.