Posted on 06/13/2017 8:21:51 PM PDT by buckalfa
The best medicine for a person who goes into sudden cardiac arrest is an electric shock. That jolt temporarily stops the heart, along with its rapid or erratic beat. When the heart starts itself up again, it can revert to its normal rhythm and resume pumping blood to the brain and the rest of the body.
The sooner this happens, the better.
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It’s LA where reality must be disregarded. Too many scumbags and morons gathered to survive without assistance.
But then you have the genius saying “what overpopulation?”
Amazing potential! I think I made an electrical joke there. If they wait for an ambulance an average of 22 minutes per the story, their brain’s gonna be toast. It’s an AED, so anybody who unpacks it could use it, or maybe they stay on the phone to coach whoever called for it.
There are automatic defibrillators that are plug and play.
Also, AEDs do not work on heart attacks. They only work on arrhythmias.
Always remember to have your heart attack while outside in a clearing that has a large flat surface.
“Also, AEDs do not work on heart attacks. They only work on arrhythmias.”
Yep, cardiac arrest needs CPR, not a defibrillator. Not a very good reporter.
More importantly, when are drones gonna be able to deliver beer and pizza?
you don’t make a good first responder!
Forget drones...there’s an app for defibbing.
I was going to type that as well. If you have a true cardiac arrest—your heart has stopped. All of the electricity in LA county is not bringing you back.
TV and the movies have made most Americans unrealistically hopeful that a paramedic is going to get your heat beating. They will sit on your chest pumping up and down...but it doesn’t work that often.
Until then it is hooey.
I was in a wooded area, so I drove myself 4 miles to the ER, and eventually got a stent. Not waiting for EMT, although my symptoms passed while filling out five minutes of paperwork at the ER!
I’ve done the same thing a couple of times. I have an awful hospital just up the street that first-responder friends have solemnly warned me away from, and a world-class cardiac hospital 30 minutes away, on a good day.
This could lead to a reboot of “Emergency”.
Drones instead of fire trucks and ambulances for the most part.
Should work well in high winds or during an ice storm, NOT
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