Turn the music off FFS

A lot of specialist kit will have been available in the road ambulance that was present, plus there is a minimum mandatory level of medical provision at the stadium. I don't want to speculate on what the illness is/was but if its heart related then the outcome is often better if the patient is stabilised at the scene (the air ambulance doctor can even put patients into controlled coma) and then take to a specialist centre for treatment. Medical evidence shows that with cardiac arrests that can be treated (not all can), if you can get a stent into a coronary artery within 1-2 hours of the arrest, chances of survival increase a lot. It seems odd logic, I agree, not to take them to your local hospital, but that could actually waste time - i.e.: go to the local hospital then to decide transfer is necessary. The air ambulance seemed to head off in the Sheffield direction.

Fingers crossed for all concerned.

 

I'm not in an argument with you because I'm not insensitive enough to believe this requires any sort of debate. The club made a judgement call. It's neither right nor wrong, because, like most things in life, there isn't a right or wrong. Some people will think it was the right decision, others not. Why you're making a big deal of this I've no idea. I posted the link to Wiki in the hope it would embarrass you enough to just shut up.

 

Not surprised how long it took for air ambulance to arrive but surprise how long it took an ordinary ambulance to turn up in the first place.

 

Know what you are saying, but I think that all of the immediate equipment and staff needed would have been in the stadium - club doctor, paramedics, defibrillator etc.

 

There used to be an ambulance parked there all the time, why did this change?

 

Why do you think?

As long as you have trained medics on site with the necessary equipment, why take an ambulance out of action for essentially 4 hours?

In all my years going to oakwell I've seen an Ambulance used 3 times I think. And one of those times was for Jürgen klinsmann...

 

I can be critical and argumentative with the best of them, but there's a time, an occasion and a place. I don't think this is it.

 

I personally think it was best to keep it as normal, I imagine 12,000 silent people watching would be the last things the paramedics needed.

Even if everyone was watching anyway I imagine the background noise would make it a little easier to get on with their jobs rather than feeling even more pressure.

 

Hey wetdreamboy3
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Agree. You can't say what was the best thing.

F-ing disgrace how long the ambulance took.

 

Poor comment, in the case of a cardiac arrest where there are already medics on scene a road ambulance is neither here nor there. The bloke needs to get to the Cath Lab at Nor Gen, a road ambulance would just delay things, air ambulance got there well within the time frame i'd expect and got him to Sheff quicker than a road ambulance would.

Your comment just shows you know nowt about how the ambulance service works.

 

OK mate I stand corrected on that

 

I'm no expert either but I'd suggest the fact that a road ambulance did arrive suggests one was required and as such he's right it's ridiculous how long it took to arrive

 

They send one as a matter of procedure in case the Heli has issues.

And you have zero clue about what ryhthm the blokes heart was in. Road ambulance is not the priority in a situation like that.