A mere formality.
The cop aggravated Casey's condition by trying to get him to "lie down". The six-minute delay was critical. The EMT guys wouldn't or couldn't apply appropriate measures by the time they arrived, and it was probably too late anyway.
Casey was brain-dead by the time the EMT guys loaded him into the ambulance. Once he collapsed to a prone position he had about 30 seconds left to live. CPR is ineffective in those circumstances.
The only thing that could have saved him then would have been immediate oxygen and adrenaline injection. It is agonizing and seconds count.
Been there, done that.
What treatments did they not provide?
In the old days I can remember trying to treat asthma patients and having the blow off valve pop off on the bag valve mask because trying force O2 into the patients lungs.
Now days we ask early in the game if they have ever had a tube down their throat (yea I know trach). If the answer is yes things start in motion.
With our current protocols, we are saving many asthmatics that would have died in the past and will die outside of our protocols.
When police officers come to an accident do they load the injured into their cars and take them to the hospital as standard practice, or do they call the paramedics?
Once he collapsed to a prone position he had about 30 seconds left to live.
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Does that mean that if he had laid him down in the police car and driven him to the hospital, he still would have died?