As true as that is, in an emergency people don’t always have time to seek out professional help, and it ain’t like calling 911 will magically make an ambulance appear in 30 seconds.
Also, the Institute Of Human Anatomy actually has a YouTube channel…
911 dispatchers are trained and certified to provide concise and accurate medically reviewed instructions over the phone so that you are not just standing there waiting for the ambulance.
Disclaimer: I’m not even upset at your partial joke. I totally get your point.
With that said, back in 1995, I had to ride my bike down the road in the middle of the night to wake a cop up, because we didn’t even own a phone at the time. I was only 13 at the time.
My mom had overdosed on a full bottle of Ellivile (Amitriptyline) and was foaming at the mouth. It took me like 10 minutes to get down the road, 10 minutes to wake him up, 45 minutes for the ambulance to arrive, and another hour and a half for the tow truck to come get the ambulance out of the muddy ditch after they got stuck.
It’s an absolute miracle she lived at all. It would also have saved us lots of risk of losing her if I only knew of something around the house fairly safe to make her vomit the stuff up.
TL;DR - I learned you can’t count on 911 to arrive in any timely manner, especially when they don’t know how to drive a big truck over muddy roads.
I would have actually been better off asking the internet how to induce vomiting than waiting over 2 hours for an ambulance. Too bad that service wasn’t an advanced and readily available thing at the time.
That seems unnecessary. You have them on the phone and they have the ability to guide you through it. It’s not like they should have to text or email you that information. You aren’t guaranteed to have a data signal or be on a cell phone or something to receive a text or email.
The overwhelming majority of people are going to be calling from a cell phone with data access now. It’s time to consider including data access to emergency services w/ emergency roaming functionally just like we do with calls and sms. A system can and should be built out to provide emergency gps, video + information services like we described and live video calls. We have the technology we just have to cut through bureaucracy.
Providing advanced smartphone functionality in emergencies could be hugely beneficial.
True that. Some people happen to be better visual learners though. Not saying I’d jump straight to YouTube, I’d most likely be calling 911 myself, but yeah when people go into panic mode they don’t always think clearly.
I actually asked my roommate what he’d do, and he suggested eating a piece of bread to help it go down. I dunno, makes sense to me, seems like that should do the trick.
You know what would magically appear in 30 seconds tho? A Google images search. Not sure why people need a video when Heimlich posters have been doing the job for decades and are easily found online
One would think that that’s the case, but youtube will happily show you ads on videos they themselves deemed not advertiser friendly. The creator simply doesn’t receive any money.
YouTube is not Wikipedia or fucking EMS
As true as that is, in an emergency people don’t always have time to seek out professional help, and it ain’t like calling 911 will magically make an ambulance appear in 30 seconds.
Also, the Institute Of Human Anatomy actually has a YouTube channel…
911 dispatchers are trained and certified to provide concise and accurate medically reviewed instructions over the phone so that you are not just standing there waiting for the ambulance.
Kids hate talking on the phone so much they’d rather get help from YouTube than call 911.
That’s only partially a joke.
Disclaimer: I’m not even upset at your partial joke. I totally get your point.
With that said, back in 1995, I had to ride my bike down the road in the middle of the night to wake a cop up, because we didn’t even own a phone at the time. I was only 13 at the time.
My mom had overdosed on a full bottle of Ellivile (Amitriptyline) and was foaming at the mouth. It took me like 10 minutes to get down the road, 10 minutes to wake him up, 45 minutes for the ambulance to arrive, and another hour and a half for the tow truck to come get the ambulance out of the muddy ditch after they got stuck.
It’s an absolute miracle she lived at all. It would also have saved us lots of risk of losing her if I only knew of something around the house fairly safe to make her vomit the stuff up.
TL;DR - I learned you can’t count on 911 to arrive in any timely manner, especially when they don’t know how to drive a big truck over muddy roads.
I would have actually been better off asking the internet how to induce vomiting than waiting over 2 hours for an ambulance. Too bad that service wasn’t an advanced and readily available thing at the time.
They should also be able to rapidly provide instructional video in the year 2023
That seems unnecessary. You have them on the phone and they have the ability to guide you through it. It’s not like they should have to text or email you that information. You aren’t guaranteed to have a data signal or be on a cell phone or something to receive a text or email.
I don’t really agree at all.
The overwhelming majority of people are going to be calling from a cell phone with data access now. It’s time to consider including data access to emergency services w/ emergency roaming functionally just like we do with calls and sms. A system can and should be built out to provide emergency gps, video + information services like we described and live video calls. We have the technology we just have to cut through bureaucracy.
Providing advanced smartphone functionality in emergencies could be hugely beneficial.
I think they mean that EMS will guide you through it over the phone.
True that. Some people happen to be better visual learners though. Not saying I’d jump straight to YouTube, I’d most likely be calling 911 myself, but yeah when people go into panic mode they don’t always think clearly.
I actually asked my roommate what he’d do, and he suggested eating a piece of bread to help it go down. I dunno, makes sense to me, seems like that should do the trick.
Not to mention that some people post an instagram status first before calling an emergency number. Seems to happen often with car accidents
Natural selection
You know what would magically appear in 30 seconds tho? A Google images search. Not sure why people need a video when Heimlich posters have been doing the job for decades and are easily found online
Google would just as soon post a page of sponsored content first and try to sell you a poster, so we’re kinda back to the same sort of problem.
If anything for an online search, DuckDuckGo…
Don’t ads only show on monetized video?
One would think that that’s the case, but youtube will happily show you ads on videos they themselves deemed not advertiser friendly. The creator simply doesn’t receive any money.
Sometimes they show even if you don’t monetize your videos
“hold up a minute, I need to support Wikipedia with my yearly $3 donation. it just popped up and I will forget.”
dies
(though you should help keep the lights on at wp so I guess gran had a good run)
If you can’t scroll past the ad I doubt you’d be able to scroll to the section with instructions
I think the correct answer might actually be Wikihow
But if you scroll past, you’ll forget and Wikipedia will die.
It’s granny or the wiki. The fate of humanity is in your hands. You know what you have to do.