"Seattle has the highest survival rate for heart stop events in the world at 56%. That's because of pioneering advances in EMT training, broad availability of AEDs, high percentage of people trained, etc."
Statistic is true, but to say it is because of those things would requite some further analysis. Given confounding factors I don't think you can make that claim.
Seattle has an obesity rate of 22.5%, compared with 35.7% nationwide, and 33.1% in Detroit. Obesity is a major risk factor for cardiac arrest.
Seattle is also extremely white for a large American city, 67.1%, versus a place like Detroit which is 82.7% African American. Black American's have significantly higher incidences of hypertension and cardiac disease than White Americans, both for reasons that seem to have some unrealiable relations to genetic heritage but more significantly due to social stressors related to racism and overrepresentation of poverty.
Speaking of economics, Seattle has a median household income of $45k, while Detroit has a median household income of $26k. Cardiac Arrest risk factors are greatly exacerbated in the United States by poverty.
I don't deny the importance of instituting up-to-date protocols for Emergency health personnel, broad equipment supply, and widespread lay education. But to give them all the credit is to ignore Seattle's many advantages, and Detroit's many other sufferings.
Statistic is true, but to say it is because of those things would requite some further analysis. Given confounding factors I don't think you can make that claim.
Seattle has an obesity rate of 22.5%, compared with 35.7% nationwide, and 33.1% in Detroit. Obesity is a major risk factor for cardiac arrest.
Seattle is also extremely white for a large American city, 67.1%, versus a place like Detroit which is 82.7% African American. Black American's have significantly higher incidences of hypertension and cardiac disease than White Americans, both for reasons that seem to have some unrealiable relations to genetic heritage but more significantly due to social stressors related to racism and overrepresentation of poverty.
Speaking of economics, Seattle has a median household income of $45k, while Detroit has a median household income of $26k. Cardiac Arrest risk factors are greatly exacerbated in the United States by poverty.
I don't deny the importance of instituting up-to-date protocols for Emergency health personnel, broad equipment supply, and widespread lay education. But to give them all the credit is to ignore Seattle's many advantages, and Detroit's many other sufferings.