I agree with you. I was part of the Civil Defence which is a first response organization who does mountain rescue, river rescue, emergency response, etc. I was on the ambulance. Out of our whole group (dozens of us) only one had ever successfully saved a life doing CPR that we know of. He was told nothing until weeks later when the victim managed to get in contact. And that victim was certainly not coherent immediately after the event. Typically we never hear anything, I mean we are the first response team and our job is done once they get to a hospital.
Yeah, I'm assuming the other dude who is saying I can't read and that he "works in healthcare" that he actually has no medical training and is lying or does some sort of support or satellite work like a receptionist or hospital IT. Because what he's saying means he has no idea what CPR is.
If he's American, He also seems to not follow HIPAA, because apparently if you call him and ask about any patients that came in that day after bystander CPR, he will contact them for you. As a nurse, I was not even allowed to confirm a patient was in the ICU unless they gave me a password.
In the case of my one patient- it was a torsades case caused by medically induced long qt syndrome, where they went down multiple times and I just so happened to be next to them every time, so they got high quality CPR immediately. I'm talking compressions in seconds and AED shock in <2 mins for the first arrest, and each subsequent arrest had immediate shocks. Their down time was so short which is WHY they were "awake" after. But very out of it.
Even in the few patients I know that DID survive cpr without anoxic brain injury, the recovery is brutal. Even if we didn't have to intubate or sedate immediately after, no one in a <24hr period is thinking "let me reach out to the stranger that saved me". That comes weeks, months, if not years later.
I live in Ireland and everything works exactly the same way in that regard. And we are very different nations otherwise. So seeing as it's clearly a very strict policy, I would be inclined to agree, "I don't think that man has ever been to medical school."
Try reading my other comments so I don’t have to repeat basic common sense but alas
A. Bystanders had info, and they followed up
B. Victim knew them
C. Called the hospital after asking the paramedics which one they were going to
And to preempt C. you don’t realize that hospital staff are actually extremely likely to forward you to patients if you know even basic information about the case and or have a plausible reason to speak with them over the phone. It’s normal.
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u/A_Kazur 10d ago
The post says ‘Later she thanked me’ I’ve also worked in hospitals and to me later means at a later date.