The investigation into the death of Sidney McIntyre-Starko Following Wednesday, when a doctor in the United States spoke.
Dr. Michael Kurz is a doctor who wrote university documents on best practices concerning the emergency medical dispatch in the United States.
He testified that to save lives, the distributors must be faster with key questions, which, according to the family of Sidney McIntyre-Stark, could have saved his life.
McIntyre-Starko Died of a fentanyl poisoning in January 2024 after she and a friend collapsed in a university dormitory after consuming drugs found in a box of coolers that a friend found in a street corner.
She attended the University of Victoria at the time and it was her first year far from her house.
On January 23, 2024, the young man of 18 and two friends took what they thought was cocaine. However, according to toxicology, the substance in the bottle was fentanyl.
When the two girls vanish, the third teenager called 911.
It took more than three minutes to the taker of 911 to establish that the young women were in a dormitory on the UVIC campus, but it takes a critical way to ask key questions.
“911: Are they awake?
Student 2: No
911: Do they breathe?
Student 2: UM… I am not 100%sure. I think yes. Do they breathe? Yes, they are.
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Kurz said on the stand on Wednesday that these questions should come from 911 calls immediately after obtaining a location.
“If they need emergency medical care, it’s very simple,” he said.
“You secure an address, then ask two questions. The first, is the patient concerned with the patient? Yes, no. Two, did the patient breathe normally? Yes, no.
“If the answer to one or the other of these questions is no, you are at the point where you have enough information to send the appropriate answer.”
Kurz said the response sent resources and begins the RCR on the patient.
Instead, the survey has learned that British Columbia’s emergency services use the technology provided by a private company called Medical Priority Dispatch, which is software that uses much more complicated algorithm to assess patients.
The 911 appeal lessee was informed that students had crises, which allowed almost eight minutes to try to put people on the scene to make a respiratory diagnosis prescribed by the shipping system.
Finally, it was discovered that the students had overdose and that Narcan was administered.
The RCR finally started at 15 minutes after the 911 call when the state of McIntyre-Stark has worsened.
Kurz said the algorithm is defective.
“This is a perfect example of what is happening when we do not exceed,” he said.
“When the system is built to be as precise as possible, it will be, you know, effective as much as possible. This is not the objective of an emergency medical response. The purpose of the emergency medical response is to eliminate public damage and save lives. ”
The distribution of medical priorities manages the 911 appeal procedures in each Canadian province and a large part of the rest of the world.
Changes have already been made in the system following the death of McIntyre-Stark.
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