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chronic fatigue and insomnia? no surely you’re fucking with me. surely you’re pulling my leg. surely you cant be serious.

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question for people with EDS: do you have translucent skin?

yes 👍

no 👎

Voting ended onMay 20, 2025

Make Taxis Across England Carry Portable AEDs (automatic defibrillators)

Issue taxis with fully-automatic, portable AEDs (automatic electronic defibrillators) in order to give people who've had a cardiac arrest a greater chance of survival.

Taxis have already been issued with RAPAID bandages to help people who have been stabbed. I think AEDs are equally important. Those same taxis should carry portable AEDs. It's already happened in Glasgow (to a select number of) taxis, but this needs to happen across England too. Just by having select taxis carry them, it'll massively help in saving lives.

Having lost someone close to me, which was made much worse due to a delay in the arrival of paramedics, I think having more defibrillators around will save lives.

Having them in taxis will drastically increase the survival rate of someone in cardiac arrest, as there will be far more defibrillators able to be utilised by the public when on the street. "A defibrillator should be possible to fetch within 4 minutes (2 minutes there and 2 back). [...] That means the defibrillator should be 200 metres from where it's needed [as this is the average distance a person travels in 2 minutes]" (British Heart Foundation 2023).

so yknow how i have hEDS that gave me abnormally severe complications

it might be aEDS lmao this is just convincing me even more that the hEDSers bugging severely disabled folks are totally full of shit

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I have way too many whump/hospitak questions in my head but I’ll stick with these two for now-

1- Sooo imagine you have a prosthetic arm made of metal that you cannot remove, or you can remove it but it leaves a ring of metal to act as a seal/attachment point to the metal arm. Say that a person with this prosthetic has something happen to them and their heart stops beating so they need CPR/rescue breaths. This brings me to my first question- are there any types of hospital AEDs that can still work normally without hurrying about the metal connecting to the patient themselves?

2- if a patient is drenched [think stuck in a rainstorm and soaked to the bone] and needs to have an AED used on them, are there any types of AED’s that are waterproof or can be safely used in the rain? If not, how much of the patients body do they need to dry off before they are able to safely use the AED on them?

1: Any AED should work fine, even with the metal. We use AEDs on people with metal implants (pacemakers, orthopedic pins and screws, etc...) all the time so I imagine it wouldn't be much of a problem.

2: Generally if you can, you want to get the person out of standing water, get them under some kind of shelter from direct rain, and dry off at least the parts of their chest that would be in contact with the pads. But also the person's heart isn't beating so you have to weigh this against how long it's going to take to do these things.

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