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<p> <span class="bodytext"> Help does not get to heart attack victims in Singapore fast enough - 'ugly' people do not give way to rushing ambulances. </span>
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<br /> Mon, Nov 03, 2008
<br /> The Straits Times </span>
</p>Dr Fatimah said knowing these peaks can help emergency doctors and the SCDF plan resource allocation better, including having more vehicles and paramedics available at these times.The SCDF gets 100 emergency calls a month for heart attacks.On-the-spot help also makes a vital difference between life and death, she said. About 900 people die of heart attacks each year. More than 500 are dead before they arrive at a hospital. <span class="bodytext">
<p>HELP does not get to heart attack victims in Singapore fast enough - resulting in a survival rate of only 2.7 per cent.
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<p>And what slows down ambulance crews unnecessarily is anti-social behaviour - traffic which won't get out of the way, and even lift passengers who do not feel they should give up their space to paramedics.
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<p>It takes paramedics between 8.6 minutes and 14 minutes from the time they get a call for help till they arrive at the patient's side.
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<p>'After 10 minutes, the chances of survival are practically zero,' said emergency medicine specialist Fatimah Lateef, who led a study to see if there were ways to save more people who get heart attacks at home or in the community.
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<p>Every minute's delay in getting help cuts a victim's chance of survival by 10 per cent.
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<p>But only one in 37 people who suffer a heart attack at home or in the community survive.
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<p>Though the survival rate here is comparable to New York's, it is a far cry from the 50 per cent survival rate of people who get heart attacks in Cook County in Seattle, casinos in Las Vegas or Chicago's O'Hare Airport.
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<p>The team of emergency medicine doctors from several public hospitals, who studied over 2,000 out-of-hospital heart attacks, suggested that families of patients with heart diseases learn CPR, as six in 10 attacks occur at home.
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<p> <span class="bodytext"> Help does not get to heart attack victims in Singapore fast enough - 'ugly' people do not give way to rushing ambulances. </span>
<br /> <span class="content_subtitle">
<br /> Mon, Nov 03, 2008
<br /> The Straits Times </span>
</p>Dr Fatimah said knowing these peaks can help emergency doctors and the SCDF plan resource allocation better, including having more vehicles and paramedics available at these times.The SCDF gets 100 emergency calls a month for heart attacks.On-the-spot help also makes a vital difference between life and death, she said. About 900 people die of heart attacks each year. More than 500 are dead before they arrive at a hospital. <span class="bodytext">
<p>HELP does not get to heart attack victims in Singapore fast enough - resulting in a survival rate of only 2.7 per cent.
</p>
<p>And what slows down ambulance crews unnecessarily is anti-social behaviour - traffic which won't get out of the way, and even lift passengers who do not feel they should give up their space to paramedics.
</p>
<p>It takes paramedics between 8.6 minutes and 14 minutes from the time they get a call for help till they arrive at the patient's side.
</p>
<p>'After 10 minutes, the chances of survival are practically zero,' said emergency medicine specialist Fatimah Lateef, who led a study to see if there were ways to save more people who get heart attacks at home or in the community.
</p>
<p>Every minute's delay in getting help cuts a victim's chance of survival by 10 per cent.
</p>
<p>But only one in 37 people who suffer a heart attack at home or in the community survive.
</p>
<p>Though the survival rate here is comparable to New York's, it is a far cry from the 50 per cent survival rate of people who get heart attacks in Cook County in Seattle, casinos in Las Vegas or Chicago's O'Hare Airport.
</p>
<p>The team of emergency medicine doctors from several public hospitals, who studied over 2,000 out-of-hospital heart attacks, suggested that families of patients with heart diseases learn CPR, as six in 10 attacks occur at home.
</p>
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<p>[email protected]
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