{"id":30392,"date":"2021-01-05T17:50:38","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T01:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=30392"},"modified":"2021-01-05T17:50:38","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T01:50:38","slug":"the-situation-is-getting-really-bad-in-los-angeles-la-ambulance-crews-told-not-to-transport-some-patients-with-low-chance-of-survival-amid-covid-19-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=30392","title":{"rendered":"The situation is getting really bad in Los Angeles: LA ambulance crews told not to transport some patients with low chance of survival amid COVID-19 surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles County ambulance crews are being told not to transport some patients with a low chance of survival to hospitals and to conserve oxygen amid a surge in coronavirus cases.<\/p>\n<p>A memo from the county Emergency Medical Services Agency tells crews not to bring patients in cardiac arrest to hospitals unless circulation can be restored in the field &#8220;due to the severe impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on EMS and 9-1-1 Receiving Hospitals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A separate memo tells crews not to administer oxygen unless a patient&#8217;s oxygen saturation falls below 90 percent &#8220;given the acute need to conserve oxygen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The stark memos come as Los Angeles is being battered by the pandemic and hospitals are deluged by patients.<\/p>\n<p>The county health department said Monday there were 7,697 people in hospitals with coronavirus, a massive spike from the 791 hospitalized in early November.<\/p>\n<p>The health department also warned that overwhelmed hospitals are having more difficulty treating non-COVID-19 patients, including those with strokes or heart attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles County ambulance crews are&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ca-local","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30393,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30392\/revisions\/30393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}