IF they don't have a pulse.....they're already phuggin dead.
Your wife or kid in cardiac arrest...you OK with calling them at the scene and not even working it further...?
Modern properly equipped paramedic units are equipped the same way as a hospital. If they are not responding, they are not responding.
And they are equipped with a Paramedic with an Associates Degree as opposed to an ERMD who has spent a decade of his life perfecting his craft and has light years more knowledge and experience. Not to mention the fact that the ER/Hospital has emergency treatment adjuncts and drugs that are not available in the back of an ambulance. Not knockin’ EMS at all, but your comparison analogy is blatantly false.
It's not an analogy, I kept a paramedic license for 30 years. Doctors and nurses take the same ACLS class I did. I have seen them do the exact same thing in the ER that I did in the field. The results were the same. The rules changed and the docs were on board with it. It doesn't take 10 years to be trained in ACLS. If the hospitals were doing some medical study then we might bring someone in. Doctors do not have magic hands if the meds/CPR/shocks don't work after 15 minutes, they don't work. like I said. It's the doctors that write these rules and policies.
