[MarMema]

I don’t care what you think. I know what I am talking about from over 40 years in the medical field. They come in on the ambulance to the ED with CPR in progress. In most places they label it as a code 3/something or just call it in as CPR in progress.
No EMS staff sit in the field and do CPR for 20 minutes.
Why would they delay transport to a more skilled setting?

[Drago]

“No room at the Inn” apparently...COVID-19 has it full up:

http://file.lacounty.gov/SDSInter/dhs/1100458_Directive_6revTransportofTraumaticandNontraumaticCardiacArrest.pdf

[alexander_busek]

I don’t care what you think. I know what I am talking about from over 40 years in the medical field. They come in on the ambulance to the ED with CPR in progress. In most places they label it as a code 3/something or just call it in as CPR in progress. No EMS staff sit in the field and do CPR for 20 minutes. Why would they delay transport to a more skilled setting?

I have no fight with you.

The excerpt is ambiguously worded. I am only arguing that it needs to be formulated more clearly.

Regards,

[FoxInSocks]

Why would they delay transport to a more skilled setting?

Mostly because they’re not going to do anything in the ED for that type of cardiac arrest that can’t be done prehospital. There’s no point transporting a dead body to an emergency room. This is not a novel EMS policy.