Paramedics in much of the country do not transport
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Transporting a pulse less body after 20+ minutes of CPR, intubation, of fluids and advanced cardiac life support medications (epinephrine, amiodarone, etc) is statistically pointless.
This is the situation in normal cases, much less ground zero of a pandemic. Paramedics perform the same skills with the same algorithms that are performed in hospitals
Rapid transportation of a patient for whom resuscitation has failed just delays the moment of reckoning for the family.
Sad but true.
The majority of cardiac arrests to which I response remain on scene after resuscitation.