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I still have never understood the delay in taking her directly to the hospital ...they do things differently in France though.
LaRae
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I sincerely believe that it was because of this incident that played a big part in William's decision to want to do SAR work and then fly for EAAA. He, out of all of the family. knows from experience now just what goes into emergency medical situations and from my own viewpoint, I think it takes a lot of courage, guts and dedication to want to go into this field. Perhaps it even helped William to understand more of what happened with that car crash in Paris and the measures that were taken to save her life.
With cardiac problems here, the name of the game is "scoop and run". A lot of times where I am at, the EMS team that arrives on the scene does not had a paramedic on board and EMTs are not qualified to administer the care or medication that a paramedic can. With a paramedic on scene, there is the choice to "stay and play" meaning do what they can to stabilize the patient before transport. Regardless, all ambulances are equipped with an AED and all emergency personnel are trained in its use.
Each case is different and handled according to procedure. Diana's internal problems were beyond what a EMS squad here would be prepared to handle and most likely would have never stopped.
CPR can be and is done while an ambulance is moving. There are many occasions here where our EMTs and paramedics have performed continuous CPR en route to the hospital. I know this from experience.
Diana's injuries were beyond what CPR and emergency personnel could do to stabilize her. Her heart was actually had a tear the width of a man's fist in her superior pulmonary vein where it entered the heart.
so if that was the case, why not perfrom CPR while moving and get her to hospital as fast as possible.
Diana's ceremonial funeral was very simple without military contingents - why? Because she wasn't a monarch/consort, so it was desided that her charities was to walk with the princes from Clarence House to Westminster Abbey.Not everyone agrees with the significanec this version of history gives to Diana's death. Dickie Arbiter, a royal commentator who formerly worked in various senior roles in the Palace and was one of two press secretaries on duty when the princess died, says that while the royal family has clearly had to move with the times over its history, “the institution has been evolving for 1,000 years, it constantly adapts and changes and because of Diana’s death it didn’t suddenly switch from being one thing to another.”
Of particular frustration to Arbiter was the drive to bring in outside PR advisors like Lewis, which he saw as a “knee-jerk reaction” to a non-existent problem. “I believe that we got the funeral arrangements absolutely 101 percent right,” he says, and speaks of his frustration in particular with spin doctors from then-Prime Minister Tony Blair’s office, who assisted with the management of Diana’s death and funeral. “They were the Downing Street lot, the new kids on the block, and they thought they knew everything,” he says.
At the first planning meeting for Diana’s funeral, Arbiter recalls, the question was raised as to whether Diana’s coffin would be borne in a hearse or on a gun carriage (in the event, the latter was chosen). “One of those Downing Streets said: ‘you can’t put it on a gun carriage, that’s too militaristic,’” says Arbiter, “until it was pointed out to them that, hang on a minute, she was commander in chief of the London regiments. So she had a military connection.”
This article is crap with several errors (this is not the thread for discussing that), except for the Dickie Arbiter part - very interesting:
How Princess Diana's Death Changed Queen Elizabeth II and Britain's Royal Family
Diana's ceremonial funeral was very simple without military contingents - why? Because she wasn't a monarch/consort, so it was desided that her charities was to walk with the princes from Clarence House to Westminster Abbey.
And if Diana’s coffin had been driven in a hearse to the Abbey, her funeral had been a non event when it comes to pomp and pageantry, so Diana fans can thank the palace for her funeral, not Blair and his people.
so if that was the case, why not perfrom CPR while moving and get her to hospital as fast as possible.
IIRC there was an interview with Diana's mother where Frances said that she was told later by the medical staff that even if the accident had occurred in the hospital parking lot Diana still would have died - the damage was that severe.I've read in some medical journal in the days and weeks immediately following the tragedy that directly massaging the heart, as was reportedly done by rescuers who responded to the accident and by ambulance personnel on the way to hospital might have actually made things worse. The tear in the pulmonary artery was bleeding out and cardiac massage would have made it worse.
I really don't see how there was any hope of saving her life unless she had been operated on within minutes of impact which of course was impossible given the circumstances.
There is simply no way at all to diagnose such a severe internal injury like Diana's in the field, none.
They didn't realize it initially when they were checking the occupants of the car. However once she was removed from the car, her blood pressure plummeted and she went into cardiac arrest. The doctor who accompanied the ambulance crew realized this was likely due to internal bleeding.I thought that they didn't realise she had internal bleeding. However Im quite prepared to believe that she had good care, and that they had to stop to do whatever was necessary to stop her from dying of heart failure in the ambulance. I don't generaly subscribe to conspiracy theories...
IIRC there was an interview with Diana's mother where Frances said that she was told later by the medical staff that even if the accident had occurred in the hospital parking lot Diana still would have died - the damage was that severe.