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Posted on 01/27/2021 9:05:14 AM PST by Kid Shelleen
As violence continues to surge in Philadelphia, a new University of Pennsylvania study shows that Philadelphia police transport two of every three penetrating trauma victims to the hospital, helping ensure exceptional survival rates.
The study found that scoop and run hospital transports had survival rates comparable to those transported by EMS professionals highlighting how crucial police have become to patient care.
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If it’s the criminal who’s wounded, wait for the ambulance from Allentown.
Nice feel good story; this has been tried in a lot of places and always sounds good. I am not going into details; but unfortunately, every experience that I had with our police department trying to administer any kind of medical care were nothing short of horrendous. I am sure there are some officers who are good at it... I have just never worked with one.
Years ago an episode of COPS was set in Philly and the officers spoke of this practice. Very often time is of the essence and this does save lives.
Of course Blacks and Latinos are transported first, because Racism ...
I am waiting for the study on the effects of teaching biblical morality to people, would that help stop shooting and stabbing each other?
It’s called scoop and scoot. They’ve known about it for decades.
Indeed. The only cure for trauma is an OR. Time-to-Knife is critical.
Really? We needed a study to figure this out?
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How do they clean the cruiser out afterwards? Sounds like it would be a mess.
Anyway, thus is better than the police shooting procedure where they let the citizen bleed out.
It’s not about them performing medical procedures. It’s about timeliness. It makes perfect sense that getting them to the full-up medical facility as fast as possible is the ticket. Not waiting a half hour for the ambulance.
This was illustrated to me watching an Active Shooter show about the CO theater mass murder. The cops said they’re not supposed to by law transport victims to the hospital. But they weren’t going to wait for the EMS which would be overloaded anyway. So many of them tossed them in their squad cars and took off.
Bureaucracy.
It’s not about crime.
It could involve any kind of emergency.
I’ve known cops who wer also EMT’s and I worked with them. The police in my city sometimes transport to the hospital and begin CPR when necessary. But also, when certain types of calls come it, dispatch will also send the ambulance out on standby.
Cops are usually the first on the scene of these crimes and these statistics reflect that fact. Had these eggheads from the University of Pennsylvania spent a few nights in a radio car they could have saved the money that was spent on this study.
In the spirit of Rahm Emmanuel’s “Take it to the alley” initiative in Chicago which he hoped would cut down on innocent bystanders getting hit during shootings I say “Take it to the hospital”. Dancing Jim Kenney Mayor of the great sanctuary city Philadelphia should appeal to all criminals to do their shooting and knifing in areas near hospitals.
I say “Take it to the Graveyard” and cut out the middle man.
Issue them an electric combination ambulance/paddy wagons?
Speeds up all response times!
Take care........pilgrim
There were some articles comparing EMT protocols between France and the US after Princess Diana died and some concluded that had she been rushed to the nearest hospital she might have survived.
Sounds good... I've just never seen it happen. And no one that I know would ever say that it was illegal for the police to transport someone. One example of many dozens... On my day off my crew showed up to a fat guy who pulled up a man hole cover to retrieve something that he had dropped in it. He crawled into the drain and then slipped in further than he intended and was still thrashing around while he was drowning when the police showed up. They just stood around keeping people who wanted to help away until my crew arrived and yanked him out. He of course was already dead and was not able to be revived.
Do you think anyone got into trouble for their lack of common sense and callous disregard for someone's life. Take a guess... And I have seen worse situations.
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