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Like most people, they don't code in the background.
It's like, it's okay when they do, because we can like, all right, we're on it.
Like we get hands on the chest immediately, get the cardiac monitor, defib.
But typically they're not found by EMS.
They're found by lay people, civilians.
They're going to find them in the home or it is they, they, they collapse at Walmart and buying frozen peas.
But they're found by bystanders.
And, and,
Those first few minutes are what we're talking about super important for cardiac arrest is because our chance of survivability goes down by 10% for every minute that someone's in cardiac arrest.
My system, the average response time for any mess is like nine minutes, 10 minutes, somewhere around there.
Hopefully we can get some firemen on scene faster, but those chances of survivability, especially in that first few minutes, is crashing very quickly.
Yeah.
And you know, that 110 beats, 120 beats a minute is what we're, you know, pretty consistent.
Um, and just keeping that alive, you know, and I remember like going away from mouth to mouth, the chest only chest compressions was a big deal.
And like you said, people have, I don't remember if there's a term for it, but basically witnesses don't do anything until someone steps up and makes the first move.
Um, I was at a hospital system, uh, eating dinner, uh,
Hasn't been just a few months ago, I feel like.
And Kenneth and I are sitting there eating and this lady falls.
Like we're in a hospital cafeteria.
Lady falls.