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Premium Content  A man with a chronic heart condition says he waited for an ambulance for two hours and spent another hour on the ambulance ramp before he was seen by a doctor due to a concerning blood clot in his leg. Allan Strip, 79, is a heart attack survivor and has a condition called atrial fibrillation so when an infection took hold of a cut on his leg and created what looked like a blood clot, his doctor told him to call the Ambulance on March 10. Allan Strip, 79, waited two hours for an ambulance to pick him up, and then spent another hour on the ambulance ramp. Picture: Nigel Hallett
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Dispatcher helps save unconscious woman
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The following is a news release and photo from the Bingham County Sheriff’s Office.
On April 22 at approximately 3:47 a.m., the Bingham County Emergency Services Dispatch Center received a 911 call reporting a 41-year-old female unconscious and not breathing.
911 Communications Officer Samantha Cuttlers provided the caller with CPR instructions using Emergency Medical Dispatch Procedures, which enabled her to provide step by step instructions to the caller on how to perform the life saving technique.
During Cuttler’s instructions, she simultaneously dispatched emergency medical units and provided them with vital information and directions to the location of the crisis. The Shelley Quick Response Chief, Lyle Barney, stated the female patient was alive and doing okay when she was transported to the hospital.
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