[redcatcherb412]

As if the upcoming 4th of july wasn't patriotic enough. the staff at the Albuquerque VA hospital following SOP to dispatch an ambulance to a heart attack, reulted in the death of the veteran.

The heart attack occured in the hospital cafeteria the ER was in the next building a few hundred feet away no personnel with portable lifesaving equipment was sent the ambulance arrived hundreds of feet away in 20 minutes the veteran had died by the time medical help arrived IN THE FREAKING HOSPITAL

I am sure the new VA CEO will send condolences and a free box of procter and gamble soap.

[Forward the Light Brigade]

Who’s Fault? Why its Bushes Fault! If we didn’t have Bush—No Iraqi War and no crippled Vets.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Well, Duh. It’s Bush’s Fault! *SMIRK*

[easternsky]

Va has really strange operating procedures with emergency's, its like they have not been trained for them, they operate on a doctors office mentality.

[NewMexLurker]

This vet was just at the hospital for some routine tests. He was walking around, waiting for his appointment, when he was stricken. The Albuquerque VA hospital told the widow nothing about this 30 minute delay getting her husband to the ER. They just told her he had died at the facility. The first the wife heard about the delay was when a friend of hers called her after seeing this story on the local news last night (I know this because my wife was that friend who called.) The widow was already devastated, and of course it was much much worse when she learned the death might have been avoided.

[Osage Orange]

Hospitals now have AED's everywhere.....and most people at them are trained in CPR.

That said...why we have to call 911 doesn't make sense. I worked at a hospital that the Maint. Dept responded to visitor problems. Never made sense to me....

I'm sure it's insurance and liability issues.....