Actor Kang Su-yeon is unconscious for three days due to brain hemorrhage
Call 911 for “severe headache” even in the morning before losing consciousness
Returning to the scene with a family report… found in cardiac arrest
Why did the paramedics agree with the refusal to transfer?
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Actor Kang Su-yeon (56) is known to be unconscious for three days due to a cerebral hemorrhage.
Kang Su-yeon was found in cardiac arrest at her home in Apgujeong-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul on the 5th and was transferred to the hospital. When she was taken to hospital, she was said to have undergone cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), and tests revealed that she had a cerebral hemorrhage. Whether or not she will have surgery has also been decided following monitoring her progress.
Kang Su-yeon also showed symptoms of headache this morning. Su-yeon Kang, who felt a headache, called 911 and was dispatched by paramedics, but it is said that she withdrew because she did not want to be taken to the hospital at that time.
According to the police and fire authorities, Kang’s family called 119 at their home in Apgujeong-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul around 5:14 pm that day, saying, ‘Mr. Kang is complaining of extreme pain.’ When paramedics arrived at the scene, Mr. Kang was already lying and was found to be in cardiac arrest.
If so, what was the reason for the paramedic’s refusal to transfer to the hospital? Even if the patient is in an emergency situation, is there no obligation to transport the patient to the hospital if he refuses?
According to Article 6 of the Regulations on the Operation of Emergency Guidance Physicians (Direct Medical Guidance), paramedics are required to provide more professional evaluation of the patient’s medical condition, advice on selecting an institution to transfer the patient, and patients who refuse emergency treatment. If you need advice, etc., you are required to request medical guidance from the direct medical guidance doctor on duty or the doctor of the hospital to be transferred.
“Even if the patient refuses to be transferred, if the paramedics decide that they should transfer them, they will be subject to medical guidance,” said Jo Seok-ju, a professor of emergency medicine at Pusan National University. If the hospital did not request medical guidance, the judgment ability of the paramedics who recklessly sympathized with the patient’s refusal to transfer might be a problem.”
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