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Unfortunately I believe that we are limited in what we can focus on. I think that if we proceed with the partisan sideshow of prosecuting Bush admin. officials, healthcare will get lost in the brouhaha.
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District's Cardiac Response Times Lagging
Despite its relatively small size, ambulances in the District have a low survival rate for cardiac arrest patients: only one in eight make it to the emergency room with a pulse, The Post's Elissa Silverman reports today.
Across the river in Arlington County and Alexandria, where ambulances cover a much greater area, the rate is twice as high.
While patients in cardiac arrest, a condition usually triggered by an electrical disorder that disrupts the heart's blood-pumping, make up less than 1 percent of the District's 911 calls, experts say success in keeping those patients alive is one of the most telling indicators of the overall quality of an emergency medical system.
There were 585 patients treated for cardiac arrest by the District in 2005, the last year for which statistics are available.
By Derek Kravitz |
May 29, 2008; 2:48 PM ET
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Perhaps it is because the hotdogs save who they want to save. Well, now things have changed. Not only is there a war going on over in Iraq. But, there is psychic warfare going on. And, the psychic warfare is what is going to destroy this planet. For the evil ones...good riddance!