Mixon agreed that people who may be having a heart attack need emergency help. He added that they should not try to transport themselves to a hospital.
“We don’t want people driving in cars with heart attacks because some of them die – some of them have ventricular fibrillation and don’t survive,” he said.
“On the other hand if that happens when you’re in the back of an ambulance they are equipped to manage that situation, so it’s safe for EMS to take you an extra 10 or 15 minutes, but not necessarily safe for people to go by a private vehicle an extra 10 or 15 minutes,” Mixon said. (Reuters)
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