Health –
a) I do not know what they did or did not do for that particular patient, I was just referring to what was written in the post. There is no point of delivering a patient that is beyond the point of saving when the patient could have been stabilized, so fluid resuscitation is a priority. If this should be done prior to transport or not depends on many details and dynamics of the situation.
b) I did not use any lingo, just listed some of the devastating and fatal syndromes that may occur without aggressive fluid resuscitation.
c) Rapid transport is without question a high priority, yet there are scenarios in which transport should be delayed for a couple of minutes in order to stabilize the patient. What is also as important is early notification to the receiving facility and to the unit that will be receiving this patient so that the staff is all prepared.
d) Ambulances usually respond from a central or designated location, it also takes a couple of minutes to bring in the equipment needed from the ambulance to safely extract the patient. The Hatzalah EMTs and Paramedics have a grassroots response and are usually within close proximity of the call location, which normally means that initial basic and advanced care has been initiated before the ambulance is on location. So the patient gets treated prior to transport without any of the treatment delaying transport.