I have a hard time getting upset over this....sounds like triage.
New York: it’s a great place to die.
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I can’t imagine performing CPR for an hour.
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Sounds like a “DEATH PANEL” to me
Some of my friends wondered why I got so upset when O said we could absorb another 9-11. They don’t understand that in an emergency, all bets are off. Fire-Rescue can only do what they can do. If this occurred with a heavy snow, can you imagine what would happen with another attack of sorts? Just a thought.
Last year’s February snowstorm in Pittsburgh resulted in deaths of patients who could not be reached by EMS. Our snowfall was significantly less & the roads simply were not maintained so it was inexcusable IMHO. I’m not sure about the NYC situation - same thing maybe?
In any event, 20 minutes of CPR is reasonable. If the patient dosent respond after that, they’re not gonna.
You have to do it when your manpower is dwarfed by the emergency.
Nothing political or evil about it. The idea is to save the most people possible.
They should invent flying cars like in The Jetsons for emergencies.
Anyone who voted for Bloomberg deserves what they got. Pat-downs and naked-body screenings at airports apparently have more priority for citizens than ensuring the city has top-level snow disaster (or any disaster) plans set in place. Bloomberg just oozes confidence that he's in control while people are dying for lack of such a disaster plan. Perhaps he was too busy sending emails trying to get that mosque built?
For every minute that you don't get the heart restarted (by an AED or a defibrillator) the chances of survival go down 10 percent. The only exceptions are in a cold water drowning or exposure to cold to the point of hypothermia. Then they are declared dead when they are warmed and the medics still are unable to get the heart started. Therefore it is reasonable to be able to halt a normal code after 20 minutes.
In mass casualty situation you are directed to do scene size-ups using a method called :30 & 2 and can do. The can do patients are considered walking wounded and are green tagged. The 30 & 2 refers to respiration of < 30 or a capillary refill of 2 seconds. Any within those parameters is yellow tagged the rest are red tagged. If they have no heartbeat they are black tagged unless there is adequate resources to handle it, which is very unlikely.
CPR in the field tends to be pretty ineffective no matter how well or how long it is done.
Rationing human life... the Left has arrived!
Good to see people getting comfortable with rationing.
The EMTs need to get to the next patient - an obese lady stuck in her bathtub.