Anonymous ID: 49f2af May 30, 2020, 8:49 a.m. No.9377951   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7978 >>8029 >>8086

 

Hennepin County EMS Did Not Follow County-Mandated EMS Protocols for Cardiac Arrest

 

-Emergency Medical Services Protocols are established procedures that must be followed for a given medical emergency.

-If protocols are not followed, the organization is held accountable: licenses can be revoked, workers fired, lawsuits typically are filed by patient/family.

 

I found the Hennepin County EMS Protocols and EMS clearly did not provide the required Basic Life Support for cardiac arrest for George Floyd:

 

If the patient is in cardiac arrest upon arrival of the ambulance crew, institute or continue Basic Life Support:

  1. CPR: compressions 100/min, breaths 8-10/min. Do not over ventilate.

  2. Impedance Threshold Device (ITD): Attach ITD to BVM and apply to patient within 30 seconds. You must maintain a tight, continuous, 2-handed face mask seal for the ITD to function properly. Use of ITD is service dependent.

  3. Reassess the patient’s rhythm after every 5 cycles (2 minutes) of CPR. Limit interruptions in CPR during pulse/rhythm checks to less than 10 seconds for airway insertion and/or administration of medications.

 

No Basic Life Support treatment means one of 2 things:

-He was breathing and had a pulse so they just needed to monitor and transport.

-He was in cardiac arrest and they did not follow protocol and should be investigated.

 

https://www.hennepin.us/-/media/hennepinus/business/work-with-hennepin-county/ems/als-protocols.pdf?la=en&hash=4DCAD9C684CFCCB5D0F280F3CB20DEF6A4D74A7A