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A woman checks into a residence where she must first sign a statement acknowledging that no medical staff is present to treat you.
Then one day she collapses. She is still breathing, her heart is still beating.
911 is called. The dispatcher goes crazy. Listen to the audio, the dispatcher went crazy, trying to get someone to give this living and breathing woman CPR.
The ambulance arrives and loads this living woman up and goes to the hospital.
She dies at the hospital.
Some of you may insist that you would try to give CPR to a living breathing person. I would not.
I was trained NOT to give CPR, unless a person needed it. I do not care what the dispatcher was begging for. If a person has a heart beat, you DO NOT give chest compressions.
That makes perfect sense and is acceptable to me.
That dispatcher was nuts, imo. Squealing like a pig. It was not her job to give orders. It was her job to dispatch, doh! I can see the dispatcher giving helpful instructions IF ASKED. I assume they're trained to help deliver babies, yada yada. She wasn't asked for anything but an ambulance.
I have a feeling when the dust settles, the bawling media is going to look pretty silly passing judgement without knowing the details.
That dispatcher was nuts, imo. Squealing like a pig. It was not her job to give orders. It was her job to dispatch, doh! I can see the dispatcher giving helpful instructions IF ASKED. I assume they're trained to help deliver babies, yada yada. She wasn't asked for anything but an ambulance.
I have a feeling when the dust settles, the bawling media is going to look pretty silly passing judgement without knowing the details.
Not according to the article in post #2 (you did read it didn't you?).
"Fire officials reported that the woman died at the hospital."
Well, good. They they are the ones that should have resuscitated her. The nurse is off the hook. The lady was alive and breathing when she turned over control.
Well, good. They they are the ones that should have resuscitated her. The nurse is off the hook. The lady was alive and breathing when she turned over control.
Sounds good in theory. But will the DA see it that way?
Not according to the article in post #2 (you did read it didn't you?).
"Fire officials reported that the woman died at the hospital."
That is because when paramedics arrive at a scene, they immediately do CPR until the patient is "pronounced" dead at the hospital. If the lady was not already dead at the home, why on earth would she need CPR???
When I am as old as 87, I can only hope that I would die as quickly and as peacefully as that lady did. The last thing I would want is some "enthusiast" jabbing my broken ribs into my liver and dying painfully.
Then you should have your DNR appropriately documented.
I called an ambulance once for an elderly woman who was ill, even the Director of Nursing was carrying on about her DNR. Namely, that she didn't have one. But she's been here for almost 2 years! What do you want me to do, she doesn't have one.
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