2scents
“You mentioned two examples, strokes and heart attacks.”
no Ky did ” So let’s say their response time is six min.Long enough to cause death my heart attack or permanent damage by stroke.”
I was replying to a minor inaccuracy .
“Everyone knows that every wasted minute means more dead cells.”
Not to mention financial penalties. (I’ve sat in administrative meetings trying to improve door to ballon time)
“Please do not state publicly that minutes do not matter when it comes to heart attacks and strokes, they do! If anyone is experiencing any symptoms of a heart attack or stroke they should immediately without delay call whichever EMS they prefer.”
Agreed, my word choice was poor and I did not mean to imply that any time should be wasted in seeking emergency medical care
Though my question is simply do you think patients of a similar acuity brought in by Hatzolah have a better outcome than those brought in by say FDNY?
There is proabbly no available hard dtata that can possibly actualy address this question , and I fully understand and respect a prefrence not to answer. Its just something Ive worried about since anecdotaly I havent seen such a discrepency in outcome and it is hard to imagine there is one