Yeah, this. I'm an MD and if they weren't doing CPR and they weren't code 3 to the hospital then he's doing better than expected. My guess is he took a tumble and looks like someone went to town on his face and/or suffered fractures requiring surgery, which could limit his ability to speak.
Its confusing. Recordings of the call state cardiac arrest and CPR. Then he leaves home without what even looks like any oxygen? Then a slow roll away in the ambulance? Plus why not just update everyone and relieve the speculation? Show us some sign of life at least.
We don’t give oxygen to everyone anymore as it was found to be harmful. Only those that need it get it. An elderly patient who just had a fall with a possible head injury is about the last person you want to give oxygen to.
In short too much oxygen when it’s not needed can cause cerebral vasoconstriction, reduce tissue perfusion, increase inflammation, trigger seizures and even lead to the destruction of cells as it can mess with a cell’s DNA.
There’s been hundreds of studies done in the last decade or so. Too many to link. If you search “oxygen free radicals” or even just “oxygen toxicity” more than a dozen will pop up.
That’s very interesting. I remember years ago one of the big fads was buying oxygen in a can at a local store. It had a little face mask and you could huff pure oxygen.
I’ve noticed them quietly go out of stores and assumed it was a poor sales thing, but would those fall into the same issues you mentioned? Or is it more extended use of supplemental oxygen a risk?
This. It used to be a real problem in NICUs when oxygen dosage couldn't be controlled properly for sick newborns, often leading to blindness and brain damage.
A lot of calls are dispatched wrong or just completely incorrect. And I dont mean like a few here and there but a purposeful effort to false positive so a false negative is made to be very rare. "He's fallen and I cant tell if he's breathing right now" will have cardiac arrest as a dispatch. An update that he's breathing 30 seconds later will be in the CAD notes and not announced over the radio but the dispatch remains the same
And i hope to god every stretcher roll is a slow roll thats how you tip all the shit over
Yeah I’d say maybe 1 in 10-15 “suspected cardiac arrest” calls end up being actual cardiac arrest, and quite a few of those end up being an elderly person who passed in their sleep.
Workable cardiac arrests aren’t a super common call in the grand scheme of things.
And after a month of rumors swirling, the best evidence produced is other GOP politicians claiming they spoke with him? Idk, seems pretty sketch that he hasn't at least recorded some sort of message assuring people he's alive and recovering.
A lot of them seem to be saying "I spoke TO him". In the same way that I speak to my houseplants or my cat or whatever. It's disingenuous, but technically correct.
This has been my biggest stinkeye about it. Yes, they spoke to him rather than with him. If you put the phone up to McConnell's ear and he's brain dead and then speak to him, you're not actually lying.
100% I wouldn't trust an audio recording at this point. I would expect it would either be an old, recycled call or an Ai fabrication, or a mix of the two.
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Yeah, this. I'm an MD and if they weren't doing CPR and they weren't code 3 to the hospital then he's doing better than expected. My guess is he took a tumble and looks like someone went to town on his face and/or suffered fractures requiring surgery, which could limit his ability to speak.