Posted on 04/22/2020 12:34:18 PM PDT by lowbridge
New York state issued a blanket do-not-resuscitate directive last week instructing first-responders not to try to revive patients without a pulse amid increased call volumes and lack of resources during the coronavirus public health crisis, according to a report.
Paramedics were previously told to attempt to resuscitate a patient found in cardiac arrest for up to 20 minutes, the New York Post reported.
The new order is “necessary during the COVID-19 response to protect the health and safety of EMS providers by limiting their exposure, conserve resources, and ensure optimal use of equipment to save the greatest number of lives,’’ according to a memo issued last week by the state Department of Health.
The memo insisted similar guidelines have been issued “in many areas of the U.S. as well as other locations throughout the world.”
“These changes are based on standards widely agreed upon by the physician leaders of EMS Regional Medical Control Systems across NYS and the Medical Standards Committee of the State Emergency Medical Services Advisory Council,” a health department spokesperson said in a statement.
This comes after the Regional Emergency Medical Services Council of New York, which oversees the city’s ambulance service, instructed paramedics last month not to bring patients whose hearts could not be restarted at the scene into hospitals already overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients. That directive meant first responders could still try to revive patients at the scene for up to 20 minutes.
“They’re not giving people a second chance to live anymore,’’ Oren Barzilay, the president of Local 2507, Uniformed EMT’s, Paramedics & Fire Inspectors Union, told the Post. “Our job is to bring patients back to life. This guideline takes that away from us.”
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This will be SOP under govt run ‘medicare for all’ if the left gets its way.
Right. Which is going to drive up their death count.
The marxist/fascist death party moves in.
Cuomo and his ilk wants bodies to hang around President Trumps neck.
Cardiac arrest for 20 minutes? Not too sure if I’d want to be dragged back to this side right in the middle of talking things over with Saint Peter.
so, what is the estate tax rate in NY?
This is news? This was discussed 6 weeks ago.
Yes, if they don't care about babies, then they certainly don't care about older folks who have health conditions (and who just might remember how things used to be in this Fine Country, and who just might vote accordingly.)
Around 10 % of out of hospital cardiac arrest patients survive to be released.
As much as a third if arrest is witnessed and CPR started immediately.
I am guessing that the next step will be to invent Soylent Green.
WTF?
All padding the stats in the Covid-19 column, of course.
I'm in the HC Biz...I've seen enough dying and suffering.
But this is wrong.
I've done CPR on people that came back...and were okay.
That would be about right....
Short of murder. . .if not so. What do you want to bet the illegals get resussitated.
make that resuscitated
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