A 1-minute delay can sometimes steal life of a patient in the ambulance. Recently, a clip of a young man riding a motorbike led the ambulance through the congested streets at rush hour in Ho Chi Minh City has stirred the mind of many prople.
A fact that many people don’t pay much attention to is that blocking ambulances routes can affect the golden time to save the patients.
- For cardiac arrest patients undergoing cardiopulmonary resuscitation, every minute counts.
- Severe shortness of breath can lead to cardiac arrest, in this case every minute is more precious than ever.
- When a patient is bleeding heavily after an accident, a minute delay can delay a lifetime.
- For child patient with severe burns or uncontrolled convulsions, even one minute can be a miracle.
In fact, every day in Vietnam, there is a situation where ambulance emits lights and sirens, but many motorbikes still go on their own way because riders don’t care or don’t know that their actions can dangerously affect the patient’s life.
In Australia and the developed countries, it is illegal to obstruct an ambulance. All vehicles must move out of the way of ambulances with lights and sirens on. The ambulance’ siren only wails when the medical team perform first aid for a seriously ill patient requiring urgent hospitalization.
The siren wails loudly as a signal of desire to shorten the distance to the hospitals of the unfortunate victims, but there are still passengers who do not sympathize until they are the one who accompany their love ones on those life-and-death ambulances.
Next time you see an ambulance on the road, please stay out of the way because the patient in the ambulance is someone’s relative. If they were your loved ones, would you want them to get medical treatment as soon as possible?
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