Philadelphia Best

“But the organizers of these events need to take these risks to heart when they are planning their events, and find better ways to make sure
that the race’s neighbors are able to receive the lifesaving care that they need quickly.”
I’ve written in the past about how emergency personnel who administer advanced life support may not be providing any benefit above basic life support.
In fact, one of the reasons that researchers say basic life support may be as good as, if not better than, advanced life support is
that the shorter and simpler protocols lessen the time spent in the field and reduce the time it takes an ambulance to get someone to the hospital.
Then they looked at 30-day mortality — the percent of people admitted to a hospital who died in
that period — for those patients who were admitted with acute myocardial infarction or cardiac arrest.
They gathered data on Medicare patients admitted to a hospital on the day of a marathon,
versus the same day of the week five weeks earlier and five weeks later.

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