Truth is after 5 minutes of VF the chance of survival is under 5%. You not only need to shock the heart but also correct the reason why the person’s heart stopped. If the doctors can convert the person’s heart to a stable rhythm odds are the patient will be critical and spending days in the cardiac ICU and using a lot of resources. In times like this sadly triage must occur and I am sure hospitals will institute a scoring system to determine who to code and who not to code.
Battlefield decisions on America’s streets. There simply must be an accounting at the end.