29 July 2022
An external inquiry agreed that the paramedic who attended to Ipoh teacher Kumaraveloo Terpari “should have done” CPR, but reportedly said the MA wasn't in the "right mindset".
Tag: ambulance
8 July 2022
Ampang Hospital ETD head Dr Ridzuan Mohd Isa is chairing the independent inquiry into Raja Permaisuri Bainun Hospital's ambulance response in Kumar’s case, with committee members including forensic experts and cardiologists from hospitals outside HRPB.
5 July 2022
The Health Ministry's National Committee on Resuscitation Training (NCORT) states in a 2012 guideline: “It is a duty of every doctor to attempt resuscitation on any patients with cardiac arrest.”
4 July 2022
The Malaysian Association of Medical Assistants tells the Malaysian Medical Association, a doctors' group, not to take sides, saying that MAs hold an oath to save lives.
28 June 2022
Public emergency specialists say paramedics, based on international guidelines, may withhold CPR from cardiac arrest victims if their body is cold and stiff and if bystanders did not perform CPR earlier, exceeding the survival window.
27 June 2022
Khairy Jamaluddin says the proposed meeting tomorrow between the Raja Permaisuri Bainun Hospital director and the victim’s brother in the April 13 case can be the “start of the conversation”.
24 June 2022
MMA says the death of a teacher in Ipoh, Perak, raises concern on whether proper procedure was followed in the emergency medical response.
24 June 2022
Raja Permaisuri Bainun Hospital claims its paramedic followed the Academy of Medicine of Malaysia’s guidelines, even though the guidelines do not list algor mortis (body turns cold) as a situation when CPR can be withheld from a cardiac arrest victim.
23 June 2022
Dr Kelvin Yii calls for a nationwide review to ensure that the case of HRPB’s ambulance response team allegedly withholding CPR from a patient who collapsed is not happening elsewhere.
22 June 2022
A medical assistant from Raja Permaisuri Bainun Hospital’s ambulance team didn’t perform CPR on a man who collapsed or remove him from his car, claiming his body turned cold (algor mortis), despite arriving within 20 minutes from the time of collapse.