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LA EMS workers told not to transport patients with ‘little chance of survival’
nypost.com ^ | January 5, 2021 | Joe Tacopino

Posted on 01/04/2021 10:15:21 PM PST by lowbridge

Ambulance workers in Los Angeles County have reportedly been told not to transport patients with “little chance of survival” to local hospitals as intensive care units are overwhelmed with COVID patients.

The directive from the Los Angeles County Emergency Medical Services Agency, obtained by CNN, also tells the ambulance workers to “conserve the use of oxygen.”

In Los Angeles, many intensive care units are at capacity as a disastrous wave of the virus surges across Southern California.

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Due to these factors, EMS workers were told to “perform resuscitation for at least 20 minutes” if a patient’s heart has stopped instead of taking them to a hospital.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: ambulance; chinavirusnews; covid; ems; losangeles
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1 posted on 01/04/2021 10:15:21 PM PST by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

Health care rationing

Take the pain pill instead of sucking down oxygen...

Obama would be proud


2 posted on 01/04/2021 10:17:56 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Who built the cages, Joe?)
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To: lowbridge

Shades of leftism are turning into the *night of leftism.


3 posted on 01/04/2021 10:28:13 PM PST by patriotfury ((May the fleas of a thousand camels occupy mo' ham mads tents!) )
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To: lowbridge

Keep flooding the boarder with illegals and you have to limit healthcare.


4 posted on 01/04/2021 10:28:42 PM PST by Beagle8U ("Chris Wallace comes from the shallow end of the press pool.")
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To: lowbridge

Crashing in the field almost always means no survival anyway. I think 5% or less.

So this is just common sense.


5 posted on 01/04/2021 10:30:21 PM PST by MarMema
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To: patriotfury
they ruin and destroy everything they touch. they have for a couple of centuries.

From communism to Marxism...tens of millions slaughtered and put into abject poverty.

6 posted on 01/04/2021 10:30:23 PM PST by snarkytart
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To: lowbridge

That’s BS.. They should transport everyone. What is they come onto an accident where the patient might not survive Just leave em?


7 posted on 01/04/2021 10:33:14 PM PST by tallyhoe
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To: tallyhoe

I know right? So what is supposed to happen when they die the next day? I guess the family has to call the morgue?? I thought ambulance comes to take away people who pass away at home anyway.


8 posted on 01/04/2021 10:35:40 PM PST by snarkytart
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To: lowbridge

NY did this in April, so of course it’s a wonderful thing to do- according to our US media.
If you do what NY does the media thinks that great!
No matter how many die needlessly.


9 posted on 01/04/2021 10:39:40 PM PST by mrsmith (US MEDIA: " Every 'White' cop is a criminal! And all the 'non-white' criminals saints!")
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To: lowbridge

This is so familiar. Did this happen in NYC in the early days of the pandemic?


10 posted on 01/04/2021 10:41:00 PM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: lowbridge

Within the left, there are either useful cannon fodder sheeple (the terminal historically, economically, and morally illiterate), or they are the narcissistic sociopath’s who eat their sheeple.

And contrary to common circulation, with Mao ending closer to 90 million people, the real number of leftist derived deaths in that past century is more likely between 169-177 million. One Chinese historian I had, placed the number of communist dead from 1920’s to 1991 at over 108 million.

Mass blood sacrifice of freedom loving people, seems to be very popular.

However, the truth is, the entire abortion industry is triggered and driven by the no moral boundaries, leftist indoctrinated mind.

Then they sell the ba y body parts, experiment endlessly with them, and use the adrenochrome (best produced from a child or baby in shear pain and fear), as the drug of the leftist elites.

Anyone who compromises with the left - is just as guilty in keeping the left funded and alive.

When leftist driven abortion is factored, the number then becomes unfathomable...


11 posted on 01/04/2021 10:51:15 PM PST by patriotfury ((May the fleas of a thousand camels occupy mo' ham mads tents!) )
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To: MarMema

If this was a developing country with no advance knowledge that there was a pandemic, maybe.

But it’s not, so your post is absurd, at best.


12 posted on 01/04/2021 11:22:16 PM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: lowbridge

I heard such dire triage remarks many years ago, during the big Ebola scare. Lots of people bleeding to death while buckled up on planes in flight. That was the disease I thought was going to spiral out of control. But. Somehow, it did not.


13 posted on 01/04/2021 11:24:16 PM PST by lee martell
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To: lowbridge

Biden better not ever travel there.....

Kamala will slap a DNR sticker on him so fast he’ll think he tripped over the German Shepherd .....


14 posted on 01/04/2021 11:46:38 PM PST by nevergore (I have a terrible rash on my covfefe....)
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To: dp0622

“About 90 percent of people who experience an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest die.”

https://cpr.heart.org/en/resources/cpr-facts-and-stats

Most EMS staff will say the survival rate is 5%. That’s what they taught at my last BLS class.


15 posted on 01/04/2021 11:52:33 PM PST by MarMema
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To: dp0622

“But the real rate of survival is about 12% for cardiac arrests that occur outside hospitals”

https://www.webmd.com/first-aid/news/20200717/will-cpr-save-your-life-probably-not-study-says

And I’m here to tell you that the survival they are speaking of is not one you necessarily want. The ones I have seen make it were tubed and shipped out to die a few weeks later in a trauma center ICU. Unless healthcare staff do the compressions, they are rarely done hard enough.

Next time you use the word absurd, check the facts so you don’t look stupid.


16 posted on 01/05/2021 12:00:51 AM PST by MarMema
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To: Beagle8U
Keep flooding the boarder border with illegals and you have to limit healthcare.

Regards,

17 posted on 01/05/2021 12:24:17 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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Just the flu bro.


18 posted on 01/05/2021 1:49:49 AM PST by Reaganez
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To: Reaganez

The edict doesn’t just apply to Covid folks - it applies to anyone who may suffer a stoke, heart attack or other crisis that requires EMTs to be sent.


19 posted on 01/05/2021 5:23:26 AM PST by trebb (Fight like your life and future depends on it - because they do.)
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To: lowbridge

CA’s state WuFlu dashboard indicates there are still hundreds of ICU beds available in LA County.

These stories are BS.


20 posted on 01/05/2021 5:26:30 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds. )
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