Would like to see the article referenced in the OP. But for perspective:
1) You don't start CPR until the patient is ALREADY clinically dead. No Pulse. No respiration.
2) 15 years of rural EMS. 0 for 23 on CPR saves, personally. As stated above, CPR survivability is about 4% to 5%. Not 99% like Hollyweird...
3) If you have more patients than you can treat, do you want to consume an ER bed and resources with a 50% survivability patient ? Or a <5% survivability patient ?
Anyone who has spent any time in the Emergency Services business has practiced / trained for "Mass Casualty" events. How to triage, care for, and save as many lives as possible when you can't save them all. Typical scenario is school bus, mass shooting, air crash, etc...
Folks, we are rapidly approaching a "Mass Casualty" event with Covid 19. It ain't the fight we chose. But, it is the fight we get. The middle of a battle is not the time/place to argue over how we should have trained or prepared. That boat has sailed. Now is the time to do the best we can with the training and preparation that we have in place. We can kick dirt at each other about how to do better next time on the other side during the After Action Report. We are in battle. We need to close ranks and act like it.
Good post, Orion.
Antlers posted a link to the story above.
