2) “due to the severe impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on EMS and 9-1-1 Receiving Hospitals, adult patients in blunt traumatic and nontraumatic out-of-hospital cardiac arrest shall not be transported [if]return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) is not achieved in the field,"
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3) “If there are no signs of breathing or a pulse, EMS will continue to perform resuscitation for at least 20 minutes, the EMS memo said. If the patient is declared dead at the scene or if no pulse can be restored, paramedics will no longer transport the body to the hospital.”
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4) the ambulance transport edict was issued last week... here is the sobering lay explanation of that rule:https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1344611414749667328 …
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5) Meanwhile... this is what might happen if hospitals run out of oxygen. This story of at least 4 ICU deaths has been confirmed by both ABC News and Al Jazeera and AP, and 2 Egypt investigations underway.https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1346414411439886337 …
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6) More reporting of the oxygen problems in LA hospitals.https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1344381466743107584 …
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7) the crisis in LA cannot be understated. It is “WW2 bad” according to people on the ground there. And US Army Corps of Engineer summoned is next level.https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1346182163369177090 …
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8) New CA state order... ominous.https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1346840946923757568 …
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9) sources say CSC has begun at LAC-USC medical center.https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1346648694007988226 …
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Terrible
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Wait... I am confused. They are just going to watch the patients suffer when they are called out until they pass away? and should an EMT be able to make that call without a Dr?
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Welcome to The Dark Ages 2.0
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crews to:
NOT transport patients w/ little chance of survival to hospitals
NEXT LEVEL BAD—this radical change in ambulance
This is worse than rationing
care. We have reached this.