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Good morning.
I've always believed that if you can make it to the hospital you have a good chance of making it. I guess that isn't necessarily so.

Our local rural volunteer fire department had me on oxygen and a nitro under my tongue within 7 minutes of my wife calling 911. Ten minutes later they had me in the ER with several docs standing around watching the clot buster cocktail do it's job.

From onset of symptoms until I was stabilized was under 20 minutes, yet the event left me with a heart that functions at only 30% efficiency. I can't imagine the ER staff not seeing what was happening to this poor woman for the length of time it took to get to her.

A month ago my mom dropped in her tracks and was gone before help arrived. The ER would have done her no good, and maybe they couldn't have helped this woman either. They should have at least tried.

Michael Frazier

I'm sorry for your loss.

Sounds like your mom could have had a dysrhythmia...Could have been heart attack related but some times it happens without one.

Usually very sudden.