• @[email protected]
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      751 year ago

      As true as that is, in an emergency people don’t always have time to seek out professional help, and it ain’t like calling 911 will magically make an ambulance appear in 30 seconds.

      Also, the Institute Of Human Anatomy actually has a YouTube channel…

      • @[email protected]
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        661 year ago

        911 dispatchers are trained and certified to provide concise and accurate medically reviewed instructions over the phone so that you are not just standing there waiting for the ambulance.

        • deweydecibel
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          61 year ago

          Kids hate talking on the phone so much they’d rather get help from YouTube than call 911.

          That’s only partially a joke.

          • @[email protected]
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            Disclaimer: I’m not even upset at your partial joke. I totally get your point.

            With that said, back in 1995, I had to ride my bike down the road in the middle of the night to wake a cop up, because we didn’t even own a phone at the time. I was only 13 at the time.

            My mom had overdosed on a full bottle of Ellivile (Amitriptyline) and was foaming at the mouth. It took me like 10 minutes to get down the road, 10 minutes to wake him up, 45 minutes for the ambulance to arrive, and another hour and a half for the tow truck to come get the ambulance out of the muddy ditch after they got stuck.

            It’s an absolute miracle she lived at all. It would also have saved us lots of risk of losing her if I only knew of something around the house fairly safe to make her vomit the stuff up.

            TL;DR - I learned you can’t count on 911 to arrive in any timely manner, especially when they don’t know how to drive a big truck over muddy roads.

            I would have actually been better off asking the internet how to induce vomiting than waiting over 2 hours for an ambulance. Too bad that service wasn’t an advanced and readily available thing at the time.

          • @[email protected]
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            131 year ago

            That seems unnecessary. You have them on the phone and they have the ability to guide you through it. It’s not like they should have to text or email you that information. You aren’t guaranteed to have a data signal or be on a cell phone or something to receive a text or email.

            • @[email protected]
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              01 year ago

              I don’t really agree at all.

              The overwhelming majority of people are going to be calling from a cell phone with data access now. It’s time to consider including data access to emergency services w/ emergency roaming functionally just like we do with calls and sms. A system can and should be built out to provide emergency gps, video + information services like we described and live video calls. We have the technology we just have to cut through bureaucracy.

              Providing advanced smartphone functionality in emergencies could be hugely beneficial.

        • @[email protected]
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          61 year ago

          True that. Some people happen to be better visual learners though. Not saying I’d jump straight to YouTube, I’d most likely be calling 911 myself, but yeah when people go into panic mode they don’t always think clearly.

          I actually asked my roommate what he’d do, and he suggested eating a piece of bread to help it go down. I dunno, makes sense to me, seems like that should do the trick.

      • I Cast Fist
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        41 year ago

        Not to mention that some people post an instagram status first before calling an emergency number. Seems to happen often with car accidents

      • @[email protected]
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        31 year ago

        You know what would magically appear in 30 seconds tho? A Google images search. Not sure why people need a video when Heimlich posters have been doing the job for decades and are easily found online

        • @[email protected]
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          31 year ago

          Google would just as soon post a page of sponsored content first and try to sell you a poster, so we’re kinda back to the same sort of problem.

          If anything for an online search, DuckDuckGo…

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          One would think that that’s the case, but youtube will happily show you ads on videos they themselves deemed not advertiser friendly. The creator simply doesn’t receive any money.

        • @Paragraph5592
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          11 year ago

          Sometimes they show even if you don’t monetize your videos

    • @[email protected]
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      51 year ago

      “hold up a minute, I need to support Wikipedia with my yearly $3 donation. it just popped up and I will forget.”

      dies

      (though you should help keep the lights on at wp so I guess gran had a good run)

      • Aatube
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        21 year ago

        If you can’t scroll past the ad I doubt you’d be able to scroll to the section with instructions

        I think the correct answer might actually be Wikihow

        • @[email protected]
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          31 year ago

          But if you scroll past, you’ll forget and Wikipedia will die.

          It’s granny or the wiki. The fate of humanity is in your hands. You know what you have to do.