City hospitals have been inundated with dying coronavirus patients to the point where there are frequently no ICU beds.
Oren Barzilay, President of the Uniformed EMT’s, Paramedics and Inspectors FDNYNatan Dvir
But under the regional council’s directive, emergency workers were still told to work on cardiac-arrest patients on scene for up to 20 minutes.
The new state Health Department guideline wipes out the 20-minute effort.
“Now you don’t get 20 minutes of CPR if you have no rhythm,” a veteran FDNY Emergency Medical Services worker told The Post, referring to cardiac-arrest patients who have no heart beat when paramedics arrive at the scene. “They simply let you die.”
The paramedic acknowledged that only about 3 or 4 out of every 100 patients with no pulse — “a small percentage” — are actually brought back to life through CPR and other aggressive intervention such as drugs and hospitalization.
But “for those 3 or 4 people, it’s a big deal,” the worker said.
OMG stop posting this, read the article and see how it is disinformation
What about this article is misinformation? This is linked in the breaking911 article. New York Post broke the news.
https://nypost.com/2020/04/21/ny-issues-do-not-resuscitate-guideline-for-cardiac-patients/
Oren Barzilay, President of the Uniformed EMT’s, Paramedics and Inspectors FDNYNatan Dvir But under the regional council’s directive, emergency workers were still told to work on cardiac-arrest patients on scene for up to 20 minutes.
The new state Health Department guideline wipes out the 20-minute effort.
“Now you don’t get 20 minutes of CPR if you have no rhythm,” a veteran FDNY Emergency Medical Services worker told The Post, referring to cardiac-arrest patients who have no heart beat when paramedics arrive at the scene. “They simply let you die.”
The paramedic acknowledged that only about 3 or 4 out of every 100 patients with no pulse — “a small percentage” — are actually brought back to life through CPR and other aggressive intervention such as drugs and hospitalization.
But “for those 3 or 4 people, it’s a big deal,” the worker said.