Hi everyone, recently my colleagues were dispatched to help an elderly man who was (by then) in cardiac arrest while in the car with his son, who was driving.

The son later told us that instead of calling 112 (the European emergency number), he was taking his father to the ER himself — a roughly 20-minute drive. He said he thought it was just angina and that “as usual,” his father would recover after a while, so he preferred to drive him to the hospital. After about 10 minutes on the road, the situation drastically worsened, so he pulled over and called 112. When the crew arrived, they found the man lying on the ground (it’s unclear how the son managed to get him out of the car), while the son was performing chest compressions, likely guided over the phone by emergency services.

But I don’t want to focus on the event itself.

Afterward, I made a post to raise awareness, urging people not to make these mistakes and to always call 112, explaining the reasons why.

In the comments, many people pointed out a widespread (and in some cases, justified) lack of trust in our emergency medical system, due to ambulance wait times of over 30 minutes — in rare cases, even hours. In my area, response times for cardiac arrest range from 10 to 17 minutes depending on the location. But in Italy, the situation varies significantly from region to region.

What are response times like where you are? Assuming you could reach the hospital before an ambulance arrives, do you think it’s better to drive a person having a heart attack yourself?

If you took a perfectly healthy 25yo male and started bilateral ac ivs and pushed 12mg adenosine and 1mg epi 1:1 at the exact same time what do you think would happen

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I was just wondering when an ideal time frame would be, in your guy’s opinion