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Council member Ariola asks for additional input on EMS response times
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Council Member Joann Ariola engages in a Q&A session with Tyler Weaver, a former EMT who testified about EMS response times. Ariola acknowledges Weaver's personal experience and asks for additional insights.
- Weaver provides statistics on cardiac arrest survival rates and their correlation with response times.
- He calls for increased EMS funding to improve staffing and resources.
- Weaver emphasizes the need for timely arrivals, especially for life-threatening incidents like cardiac arrests.
Joann Ariola
3:13:24
I do have a question for you, Mr.
3:13:26
Weaver.
3:13:27
So I want I don't know if you were watching the hearing, but I did bring up Yes.
3:13:32
And again, I want to give you my deepest condolences, your son as a, you know, an example, a poor example of what's happening.
3:13:41
And I think that your insight into what, you know, what needed to be changed and talking about pay parity the amount of vehicles that we have and the fact that vehicles go out of, you know, ambulances are out of service because they're in a fire and they can't go to a few blocks away just to address someone who is critically, acutely sick.
3:14:02
And so we're addressing all those things, so I'd like to hear what more you have to say.
Tyler Weaver
3:14:08
Okay, Bianco, yeah, I almost was able to complete what I wanted to say here, thank you.
3:14:15
What I was going to just say is that in the past, you know, the mayor's management report was showing that twenty five percent of cardiac arrests were able to be taken to the hospital with their, you know, pulse returned.
3:14:28
But that number now has been lower at twenty percent.
3:14:31
And if you do the math of twenty five thousand cardiac arrests per year in New York City, this five percent increase in poor outcomes, you know, equals out to about twelve hundred more people who maybe, just maybe might have survived in the past when response times were better.
3:14:49
And in closing, you know, I just basically call on the city to do even better and increase EMS funding to the level actually required to enable them to be staffed and resourced to allow EMS to arrive in a timely manner at all life threatening incidents especially cardiac arrests.
Christopher Leon Johnson
3:15:06
Thank
Joann Ariola
3:15:06
you.
3:15:06
I think we
Tyler Weaver
3:15:07
are Additional questions, please let me know.
Joann Ariola
3:15:10
No, no, I just want to say that I think that we were all on the same page with everything that you said, but we just have to make it happen.