Posted on 12/20/2021 12:16:44 PM PST by simpson96
A great-grandfather died the day after his 80th birthday while waiting for an ambulance that should have come within 18 minutes but took two hours to arrive.
Sharon Day, 79, lost her husband Ian, after he experienced excruciating chest pains at their home in the quaint village of Sturry, near Canterbury, Kent.
The 999 call at just before 1am was classed as category 2, meaning the ambulance service aimed to reach him within 18 minutes.
But paramedics did not get to the address in Sturry, near Canterbury, until 2.55am, after Sharon had to call them back.
By the time he was attended to by experts, the family say Ian was in 'agony' and could barely breathe.
Sharon revealed the last thing her husband said was that he loved her - with that tragically being the last conversation they had as Ian passed away in the morning.
The family insist Ian was robbed of any chance of survival because of the delay, claiming he would have pulled through if he was attended to sooner. (snip)
At the time of his death, he had been awaiting an angiogram that would have determined whether he needed a stent fitted but his appointment letter did not come through until after his death.
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Another omicron death.
Well, look at from the NHS point of view: Another expensive elderly patient is gone. Think of the savings.
“If you die before your appointment, be sure to cancel, otherwise you will be charged.”
While visiting the UK a few years ago, a lady neighbor slipped and fell in the common hallway. She was afraid to move and waited for the ambulance. Because it was around this time, the services were very busy - and she was a low priority because of no specific injury.
Long story short, an eight hour wait. Before an ambulance crew was free to take a low level call. In the meantime, everyone tried to help but were afraid, for fear of liability, to try and stand her up.
She was fine. But it demonstrated to me how limited the health system in the UK was.
“Free” healthcare is worth every penny.
But health service is free so it’s good.
18 minutes! Holy crap.
My son is paramedic FD.
His average is five. And never more than 10.
Well at least in the UK it’s free!
Ambulances are just used to shuttle illegal aliens and refugees downtown. They ain’t got time for some 80 year old white Brit.
In prewar Germany, people already knew not to take their elderly or otherwise infirm to the hospital, as they’d “die.” We’re almost there, with doctors refusing to give the appropriate care for Covid for fear of losing their insurance.
If he had cardiac arrest, an ambulance on the front porch probably would not have helped.
People use Cardiac Arrest and Heart Attack or MCI’s interchangeably. They are not.
Cardiac Arrest means your heart has stopped. Usually, it ain’t starting again.
I know a dozen people will come on and tell me their story about how they got their heart started again. Usually in a hospital. And that’s the key.
If the ambulance got to your house in 15 minutes after cardiac arrest, that means your heart was not beating for 15 minutes. It means your brain was not getting O2 for 15 minutes. You are dead.
Same in Germany today - many families know which hospitals they shouldn’t go to.
An hour after my father-in-law was murdered in one of these places, his Dr. came in the room and told his wife he ‘passed all his tests’.
I was an EMT. It’s worth what you pay for it. We are a poor county so you could wait a long time to get treated because Medicaid pays for ambulance rides. The limited number of rides is compounded by people who are just being transported.
A series of delays cost this gentleman his life. First he was “waiting” for an angiogram after reporting with angina symptoms. In the US he likely would have had an angiogram within hours and a stent implanted on the spot. I took my older brother to the hospital with similar symptoms and within hours he had an angiogram and stent. My brother was lucky as his blockage was in the left anterior descending artery …a situation often described as the”widow maker”.
Even an 18 minute response time for the paramedics was sub par and apparently they go lost enroute. In this age of GPS that should not happen. I was a volunteer EMT for two decades and in those pre GPS days were knew our territory well and had response times of less than 10 minutes
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