Being an arborist is one of if not the most dangerous job in America. 1. And you expect some college kids to be able to have the medical equipment and experience to suture a cut artery if not multiple.
2. It’s also a very commonly known fact that driving slower rather than faster is much more dangerous and causes more accidents.
Just think about what you just said and why its so stupid. 3. If you’re someone having an allergic reaction where your throat is closing and the only thing to reverse it is miles away, your survival absolutely depends how quickly you can get to medical help. 4. Same situation with someone losing gallons of blood of a minute. 5. Do you see ambulances driving the speed limit when they are on the way to an emergency? Fuck no, they put on the sirens and speed as fast as they can, ignoring red lights to get the person who needs help. 6. Ambulances shouldn’t fit in to your bullshit statistic either because cars get out their way when they have their sirens on.
In the story it explicitly states they were boxed in for 10 minutes, which is way more than the 3-4 minutes that you suggested.
7. One of my best friends in highschool died after having an allergic reaction to peanuts at a school event where he was immediately rushed to the hospital but he died before he could get there. He almost certainly would’ve survived if he had made it to the hospital in time.
8. Try telling your wife who’s in labor that you can’t be speeding to the hospital. You wouldn’t because that’s absolutely re- tar- ded.
Unbelievable how many people in this thread defend their asshole driving. You said you do it just to be funny which is the corniest shit ever. 9. You’re not that important, people have places to be and it costs you nothing to get out of the way.
Let me just preface this by saying you are an idiot who has no idea what you're talking about. Please, tell me, a paramedic, more about what ambulances do or don't do, or should or should not be doing. Did you even bother taking a look at the articles I posted? Those are journal articles that I have on my computer already, because I have already researched shit like this.
1. I never said they need to have equipment or knowledge to suture a lacerated artery. Like you said though, it is a dangerous job, one that I previously stated I have done, except when I was doing it, the forest was also on fire.
What I said is, knowing how dangerous it is, they should have had a basic stop the bleed kit with them. Tourniquets and wound packing are how you stop bleeds, not sutures.
2. Completely false. Show me any study that says speeding is safer than driving the speed limit. Dollars to donuts that is the speed these evil motorists were going.
3. Please explain to me the difference between an anaphylactic and an anaphylactoid reaction first, then I might take you seriously with this point. Most people who have that serious of a reaction to go into anaphylactic shock, will almost always have an epi pen or some other form of epinephrine injecting device. Unless of course they are medically underserved, which is certainly a discussion for another time. Epinephrine saves lives in these cases, not going zoom zoom fast.
4. Bro, if you're losing gallons of blood every minute, then you are fucked anyway. Adults have only 5-7 liters of blood in circulation at any given time, other than pregnant women.
5. Refer to those articles I posted. There is a paradigm shift happening in the world of EMS. Someday soon hopefully, there will be almost no times when you ever see an ambulance going lights and sirens. Going lights and speeding very rarely leads to any life saving procedures actually being performed at the hospital. Paramedics are smart enough now (most of the time), to manage extremely sick patients for the extra two minutes it takes at most to get to the hospital. More and more, we manage patients and stabilize them on scene before we even initiate transport. The average time to be seen in the ED, even with a lights and sirens response is at minimum 15 minutes. Obviously there are exceptions, such as serious traumas, but even then, if the bleeding isn't stopped or at least stemmed prior to arrival at the trauma bay, then those patients aren't likely viable anyway. Also, ambulances aren't allowed to just blow through red lights. You are expected to drive with due regard to the public. They should be making an almost complete stop to check both ways before entering an intersection. It isn't exactly worth it to the patient if we go fast and get smoked by a car in the intersection. Now when there was when patient, there are many.
6. Ha! It is clear that you have spent exactly zero hours on an ambulance, because no, they fucking do not get out of the way. There are a whole plethora of reasons for this, but no, they generally don't really move in any meaningful way.
7. Did he have an epi pen? Did someone call an ambulance rather that trying to take him themselves? The wee woo bus has medicines for just that type of affliction. Epinephrine.
8. That's not really even a thing anymore dawg. If she is a known at risk pregnancy, then her and her physician will have a plan in place for what to do when the time comes. Otherwise, somebody better call the amber lamps. We have the sterile equipment, and are trained in assisting a mother to deliver her child.
9. No one has anywhere to be that justifies them endangering everyone else on the road.
And, in my anecdote, I already said I was going over the speed limit. So I'm an asshole too. Though generally 5-10 over in my area is just going with the flow of traffic.
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