Ambulance Director Gary Carmack |
This is a true story about sudden cardiac arrest. I have worked many of these and this one was several years ago, so no person will know which case and I will not give identity or exact location. It was early in my shift. A caller frantically sobbed over the emergency phone that a person was not moving and she was not sure if he was breathing. Upon arrival, I found the man in the floor in full cardiac arrest. His young wife and children were standing about, crying and terrified. It was a heart-breaking scene. He was having indigestion last night, she said. He, sometime during the night, suffered a sudden cardiac arrest (SCA). It was too late to help him. This tragedy could have turned out quite differently had the patient entered the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) system promptly. Tragically, many people wait too long before calling 911 and entering the EMS system because of denial.
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