See this is why we need to further privatize healthcare, if everyone paid for their own personal doctor they wouldn’t be abandoned by the government.
be careful out there holy shit
Current aha guidelines reccomend not transferring a person in continuous cardiac arrest. Or well, maybe the next set of guidelines. All the current research supports this being thr correct medical decision. Which means tbey had been doing otherwise for the time up untill now.
I think you’re confusing transferring a patient from one hospital to another for a higher standard of care, vs transporting a patient from dying in the street to the ER, which is absolutely not against any guidelines.
Unless I am misunderstanding the phrasing. In my county the medical director started a doing a trial of a new protocal where you don’t transfer people in cardiac arrest. The results have been good to my knowledge. The trick is it is hard to do cpr well in the back of a moving van. So to improve quality of cpr we try to do in in the field and stablize the patiet prior to transport. There is almost nothing that will be done in a hospital for cpr that paramedic cannot do in the field. Nothing that is worth doing poor quality cpr for at any rate.
[chuckles] we’re in danger!
