Monday, August 25, 2014

Life in the USA - 2014

"Life in the USA - 2014"

From Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States

USA population in 2014 is estimated to be 318 million folks

USA has 86th densest population (people per square mile)

USA has the 4th worst income distribution in the world

USA accounts for 37% of global military spending

From CCHR - http://www.cchrint.org/psychiatric-drugs/people-taking-psychiatric-drugs/

78 million in the USA were taking psychiatric drugs in 2013

Since Wikipedia says that the USA population in 2014 is 318 million, that means that 25% of USAers are taking psychiatric drugs

From gunfaq - http://www.gunfaq.org/2013/03/how-many-guns-in-the-united-states/

2009 - in the USA - 114 million handguns - 110 million rifles - 86 million shotguns - total of 310 million - nearly 1 for every single person

(Of course we probably also have 600 million knives; and lots of sticks and stones)

Saturday, August 16, 2014

USA - news media narrative about fires

What do we read in the newspapers and see on the TV news about fires in the USA?

1. The fire department aggressively extinguished the fire.

2. The fire was too big / spread too fast - there was nothing the fire department could do.

3. There were no working smoke detectors.

4. Cause of the fire is unknown.

5. Please send money to support the survivors

You will never see this -

1. The idiots lit their house on fire again

2. The FD couldnt fight their way out of a wet paper bag

I suspect that Japan & Europe is different. Their news media might say -

1. Dont send money - it only encourages them

2. This is what the FD did - these are the lessons that were learned - (actually - maybe no one on the planet does this in the public news media)

Thursday, August 7, 2014

Los Angeles County FD does Pulsepoint now

http://www.emergencymgmt.com/health/Cardiac-Arrest-App-Crowdsources-Good-Samaritans.html

calls in homes and apt blds are not alerted

not sure if this is connected to radio comms or not - I dont see any indication at Broadcastify

they have a 5 minute average response time by the County FD already - they want to reduce this via enlisting Good Samaritans

Johnny and Roy have been replaced by an app ;-)

keywords - rapid response - rapid dispatch - openness - live scanner audio - CPR - reducing response times - saving lives

Monday, August 4, 2014

Sudden Cardiac Arrest in the USA

http://www.aedstoday.com/AED-Facts_ep_52.html

sudden cardiac arrest kills 300,000 per year in USA

save rate is 5% - (which indicates a 10 minute delay in defib)

20% of cop cars now have defibs

90% of victims can be saved if response time is 1 minute

(CPR extends VF (ventricular fibrillation) which is a shockable rythym
- without CPR, VF changes to asystole ("flat line" - which is not
shockable - is the end of the road)

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Maybe the big plan should be ->>>>> make sure that all cardiac arrests
are witnessed - make sure that 911 is called immediately - make sure
that 911 gives CPR instructions - try to get AED to scene in 1 or 2
minutes

Is it doable? TOTALLY as far as I am concerned - (even without public
safety officers - even without putting firefighters on patrol)

Friday, August 1, 2014