Having died of Cardiac Arrest, I know that I was revived almost immediately by a Defibrilator. I guess there are no defibs in Hawaii, esp. among the medical/rescue personnel who came to help.
An early victim of Obamacare? If so, justice was done.
PS: If you’re a Republican activist and get sick in Hawaii, you’re on your own for the most part.
LOL! This was the ocean, not an ER!
The first coastie to deal with Fuddy was PJ Ornot, who reported that he touched and shook her but got no response. He moved on to rescue an elderly woman about 100 yards from Fuddy.
Ultimately, it was Coast Guard rescue swimmer, Mark Peer, who fished Fuddy out of the drink. He said "She was unresponsive at which point I checked for a pulse, which I couldn't find". Peer had just rescued a man in his seventies.
The Coast Guard rescue swimmer who first saw Fuddy said that their protocols required him to pass her by because she was unresponsive. The people who most desperately need the help aren’t supposed to be helped, if what he said is true.
But the protocols say the exact opposite. Unless she was decapitated, charred, had her heart, lungs, brain, or liver detached from her body, or showed rigor mortis, she was not “obviously dead” and must have CPR performed on her, unless medical help was more than 30 minutes away. The critical-care hospital on Molokai was a 5-minute flight in the bigger HC-130 and a 10-minute flight in the helicopter. So they were required to hoist her up and start CPR immediately.
For some reason they didn’t want to do CPR on her, and lied about it to the media to try to explain why they didn’t do CPR on her.
They also didn’t get there until an hour after they received the call, when it is a 15-minute flight for the HC-130 and 20 minute flight for the MH-65. It was a straightforward situation; the weather wasn’t bad and the plane went down 1/2 mile from shore so any dangerous drifting would be outward from there, making the search part of the operation pretty simple - and that’s the part that sometimes takes extra time.