bingo... if they wait for EMS they might have to wait till the cops get there first as some EMS won't go into dangerous neighborhoods unescorted, and with good reason
Posted on 11/04/2012 6:11:20 PM PST by grundle
WASHINGTON (CBSDC) – Minorities who suffer heart attacks in poor neighborhoods are not nearly as likely to receive proper CPR compared to if they were to suffer from cardiac arrest in affluent white neighborhoods.
A recent study from a group of medical researchers found that blacks and Hispanics are about 30 percent less likely to be aided by CPR than white people, with the odds being the worst when it involves a black victim in a low-income black neighborhood. Comilla Sasson, the study’s lead author from the University of Colorado in Denver, found that socio-economic status actually makes more of a difference in a person surviving than a neighborhood’s racial makeup.
Of the 14,000 cardiac-arrest cases that were examined, the data discovered that those people in poor minority neighborhoods who did receive bystander CPR were twice as likely to survive.
The study, which was published on Oct. 25 in the New England Journal of Medicine, showed that little has changed in regard to the rate of people surviving heart attacks in non-hospital settings during the last 30 years. According to The Associated Press, more than 300,000 people suffer heart attacks in non-hospital settings each year, and most of those cases don’t survive.
“We can’t accept that anymore,” Sasson told the AP. “It shouldn’t matter where I drop to have someone help me.”
Not until the third paragraph does it mention that they are talking about CPR that is given by bystanders.
In other words, it is the people who live in these neighborhoods, not the health care system, that is the cause of this discrepancy.
bingo... if they wait for EMS they might have to wait till the cops get there first as some EMS won't go into dangerous neighborhoods unescorted, and with good reason
The proper, compassionate, answer is obvious!
We have to force more minorities to take CPR courses!
This site is almost unuseable from PA tonight .. g r r r r r
MINORITIES IN POOR NEIGHBORHOODS LESS LIKELY TO LEARN CPR, GIVE ASSISTANCE.
So we should have people from affluent neighborhoods drive around poor neighborhoods waiting for people to drop?
So we should have people from affluent neighborhoods drive around poor neighborhoods waiting for people to drop?
“So we should have people from affluent neighborhoods drive around poor neighborhoods...”
No silly... The gubment should offer free taxi cab rides over to affluent neighborhoods for the “less fortunate” folks having a heart attack.
Except for two Asians, there weren’t any minorities in my CPR class a few decades ago.
I want to know how the hell they think they can tell.
It’s not like the American Red Cross can keep the same CPR protocols for more than two or three years running....
Any statisticians around here?
When you consider a cardiac arrest only has a six percent chance of survival when CPR is applied, and it drops asymptotically the longer it takes to start compressions, I wonder about the true statistical significance the study authors are implying.
My sentiments exactly.
very few that have heart attacks outside of a hospital will make it....I have seen people within the hospital coded almost within seconds of the code being called and still die...a few survive but I’d say 1 in 20 make it and thats those within the hospital at the time,already patiences....
“So we should have people from affluent neighborhoods drive around poor neighborhoods waiting for people to drop?”
Yep.
Archi Bunker, much maligned and deservedly so said it best when his son-in-law complained about the abundance of guns, and wailed abut the high rate of suicide by guns.
Archie asked him, “well, would you feel better if they jumped out the window?”
Anyway, we are all, and especially those on the gov’t dole already, going to have to learn CPR, eating right, taking care of ourselves and others the way it was done prior to insurance and Medicare/aid. There won’t be MD’s EMT, pharmaceuticals, nothing- very little- to go around.
BB will do a flyover in a helicopter like he did Staten Island, yesterday, and the kneeknocking media chickens will fawn and let him get away with it.
He’s back in. I’ll bet he doesn’t even take another look at OBCare. Ever.
Red Cross will find a way to maintain protocols and make it good for a very long time. The money will be gone.
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