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Originally Posted by PsYcNeT
FIL had a cardiac event on Sunday night; Fire got there about 20m after my MIL called 911, EMS arrived about 15m later.
He's okay, but yeah I was surprised that I had time to stop cooking dinner, put everything away, pack a bunch of "gonna sit at the hospital for a few hours/overnight" items, get my toddler sorted and into the car, drive to their house (~10m away) and still beat EMS by 10m or so.
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So with these kind of response times it's likely safe to assume we're seeing daily deaths in Calgary due to lack of ability to respond in a timely matter to medical emergencies? You'd have to think so.
I mean a lot of cardiac and overdose calls likely require 3-10 minutes to save the life, if they're up in the 20's and 30's and even 45 minutes I'd imagine people are simply dying before they get there on a fairly regular basis?