My mom's husband was 57 years old (MaK is named after him), healthy, active, outdoorsy, rarely drank etc. He did not make it. I will state that the staff of HRMC did their damnedest. They got him back twice, but the original downtime to respond to the scene was too long. You have minutes...as in single digits to survive in most cases. It's not like TV. I hold NOTHING against HRMC, EMS, LHCPD/FD etc. They were all wonderful. I hold a lot of anger towards the person who created that delay in response time (a fucking coward), but in terms of the medical staff, they did everything that would have occurred in any other hospital...15+ min down you are essentially brain dead, which was unfortunately the case in our deal. You are in a "rural" area and with that comes risks. HRMC staff checked up on my mom for a long time after his death...and that said a lot.
what urologist would you recommend ? In LHC
I don't know him personally, but his name is Dr. Jason Flamiatos. He just performed a lazer procedure on a friend who had been completely catheter dependent for over 5 years, my friend is now completely back to normal.
That means he had an occlusion of his left anterior descending artery. That is the main vessel that supply blood to the heart tissue itself, very high mortality rate with that one
I couldn’t tell you yes or no from Sam on that. Just know Shit happens quick sometimes and there isn’t damn thing you can do about it.
Couldn't have said it better, like you mentioned if you feeling off it's best to be checked, there is a marker in the blood work called troponin that is used to tell if there is injury to the heart. The ekg monitors we use only look at the electrical aspect of heart health and not the chemical.
Very true. His response was delayed due to the actions of a worthless excuse for a human being panicking and running away instead of calling 911, essentially leaving him to die. I don't want to get much further into it than that but I will never forgive him, and he has completely thrown his life away since via drugs etc..and now rests comfortably where he belongs in the custody of the AZDOC. Karma.that could happen here ( delayed response Due to budget cuts, staffing etc ) in San Diego area.
Sorry for your loss!
Live Life to its fullest !
I would rather die young living life & Doing things I love, Than growing old looking out a window from a chair
This...time is key. Back home in HI, the fatality rate of heart attacks outside of Oahu is exponentially higher. You are being flown to Oahu, and say a flight from BI is more than that.... Molokai, Lanai, Maui, Kauai is 25-35 min from pad to pad. Major MI's are often a death sentence in rural HI for that reason unfortunately.
Sorry to hear….
I'm actually impressed with that timeline for a bird. I easily fly out 6-10 patients a month here in blythe. Most of the time our birds come from quartzite, but I will get some from Parker, havasu and imperial Valley. I have never had a bird land in less than 35 minutes, problem is that it's still 15 minutes to load (5-7 if we are doing a hot load) and another 45-50 flight time to the receiving hospital. Hell I just flew one out earlier today.
I caught a story about it recently which is where I got the numbers. I’m going to assume they weren’t including load times etc..and I know on some of the islands they have to send a bird which pushes them out of the “golden hour.”
it's changed allot since 2015, The growing population has overwhelmed the system, things are different when your already flat lined on the table, and that is the only way your going to get any attention in Havasu is to be brought in by emergency transport. I have watched to many friends go into LRMC with minor issues and not come out, I have watched friends die here waiting on treatment because no one wanted to take responsibility for the case or much less take it on because they were going to retire THIS IS HOW WE LOST WATERDOG!!!!!!!!! last year. I just cannot recommend Havasu, Fort Mohave or Bullhead to anyone they are all the same company hell bent on profit over patient (or so it appears). I can how ever from experience recommend Kingman Regional, they are a teaching hospital in fact they call it a campus they are a direct associate of the Mayo Clinic and must adhere to their standards, if any issues arise the full resources of The Mayo Clinic are at your disposal, Havasu will fight tooth and nail not to let you go to a higher treatment facility for care, I will be joining you shortly Allen with exactly the same Stent in the same place as a one day out patient operation, this will be my 4th stay at KRMC and honestly I think it's the best decision I ever made in or for my life.
I will continue to take my chances in non ACC accredited facilities here in AZ like the Mayo Clinic
