ICE said the Canadian was found unresponsive Monday at the Federal Detention Center in Miami and was attended to by medical staff, but was pronounced dead the same day.
ICE said that after Noviello was found unresponsive, medical staff “immediately” performed CPR and used an electronic defibrillator to try and revive him, before calling 911.
This could be something lost in translation, which does happen a lot with news articles
But that specific phrasing, that they performed CPR and used a defibrillator before calling 911 rubs me the wrong way
Basically the moment you determine CPR or a defibrillator might possibly be needed, someone should be calling 911 unless you are already in a hospital.
Bringing someone back with CPR is basically a statistical anomaly, most of the time all it does is buy you a bit of extra time to get them to a hospital.
And defibrillators, especially automatic ones, are only effective for certain abnormal heart rhythms (AEDs only do ventricular fibrilation, manual defibrillators can handle a couple more things, but contrary to what movies may have you think, you’re not going to “restart” anyone’s heart who’s flatlining with a defibrillator, it’s more like turning the heart off and hoping it restarts itself and stops doing what it was doing before, more of a reboot than a jumpstart)
I don’t know what kind of medical staff and equipment they have on-hand at an ICE detention center, but I somehow doubt they have a well-enough-equipped medical center that they’re prepared to handle a cardiac arrest 100% in-house with no need to send them out to a hospital.
This could be something lost in translation, which does happen a lot with news articles
But that specific phrasing, that they performed CPR and used a defibrillator before calling 911 rubs me the wrong way
Basically the moment you determine CPR or a defibrillator might possibly be needed, someone should be calling 911 unless you are already in a hospital.
Bringing someone back with CPR is basically a statistical anomaly, most of the time all it does is buy you a bit of extra time to get them to a hospital.
And defibrillators, especially automatic ones, are only effective for certain abnormal heart rhythms (AEDs only do ventricular fibrilation, manual defibrillators can handle a couple more things, but contrary to what movies may have you think, you’re not going to “restart” anyone’s heart who’s flatlining with a defibrillator, it’s more like turning the heart off and hoping it restarts itself and stops doing what it was doing before, more of a reboot than a jumpstart)
I don’t know what kind of medical staff and equipment they have on-hand at an ICE detention center, but I somehow doubt they have a well-enough-equipped medical center that they’re prepared to handle a cardiac arrest 100% in-house with no need to send them out to a hospital.
They have the medical capacity to handle a cardiac arrest as well as they wanted to. Death is a perfectly acceptable outcome for them.