re: Los Angeles ambulance crews told not to transport patients with little survival chance

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This is really not anything new, for the last 20 years or so this is been the standard of care throughout prehospital medicine (except traumatic arrest).

You work on the patient until you get a pulse back then transport. Alternatively you work them for 20 or 30 minutes depending on the protocol and if they do not regain a pulse and they are not under the age of 18 then you call a physician at the hospital and the patient is left in the care of the corners office.

The science is solid and shows that starting and stopping CPR is more detrimental than staying on the scene and doing good high-quality CPR on the ground.

This is just ground breaking news because this method is not used in California and now they are implementing it due to the large number of patients that are already hospitalized in California.

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