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Anecdote: Three runners showed up in minutes at 4am when someone on my street suffered a cardiac arrest, beating the ambulance by +5 minutes. There are so many
by holsta 5y ago
Anecdote: Three runners showed up in minutes at 4am when someone on my street suffered a cardiac arrest, beating the ambulance by +5 minutes.
There are so many ways to be cynical about the 4% to 16% improvement, but I think this is the most important takeaway:
> “The patient is dead” — meaning his or heart has stopped due to cardiac arrest — “and if you don’t do anything, 9 out of 10 will be dead forever,” he said.
- tveyben 5y agoExactly - the only wrong action that you can take is not to act!!! It’s interesting just how different our cultures/mindsets are across the Globe… I’m very fortunate to be a dane…!
- wittyreference 5y agoIn my advanced cardiac life support training, an EMT once put it this way (addressing some nerves at being responsible for a critical life or death event): Their heart is stopped - they are dead. You can’t kill them any more dead, you can /only/ bring them back to life. So what’s to be nervous about? Don’t pick it apart. It’s not hard to pick apart. But thinking about it that way really does help take some of the pressure off and let you focus on doing the deed.