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- conservative@lemmy.today
Republican leaders have moved to quash speculation about Mitch McConnell, the former Republican leader in the US Senate, amid a growing revolt over the lack of transparency around his health.
The 84-year-old Kentucky politician, who led Senate Republicans for longer than anyone in history before stepping down last year, was admitted to hospital on 14 June but his office declined to say what he was being treated for.
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I found out yesterday that he required CPR by the emt when they arrived on scene. This means there is a good chance he is already dead, and if not he is most likely in no shape to talk to anyone. There is even less chance he will ever be discharged from the hospital.
The statistics for people 80 and older that require CPR outside of a hospital are dismal, as low as 2 percent of patients will ever be discharged, and even fewer make any kind of recovery. Their bones are just too brittle to take compressions without breaking, and effective compressions take quite a bit of force.
If he is conscious he is probably hoping he hadn’t made it. There’s a reason why so many of my colleagues in healthcare above a certain age or with a terminal illnesses have a DNR, I think it is around 90% for physicians.
This is some important context, thank you.
Also, if they had to put a tube down his throat to breath, it’s not coming back out.
That’s a good one to know for any family in the future.
Kinda depends on the age bracket, intubation above 50 yo I believe is about 50% survivability. Prob much worse for someone over 80.
Not only are the statistics bad, but they’re even worse when you factor in that he was apparently found unconscious after an unknown period of time before CPR was started. If you see someone go into cardiac arrest and immediately begin compressions, the numbers are a bit better. Finding someone over the age of 80 in cardiac arrest after an indeterminate amount of time outside of a hospital? The absolute best-case is “not legally dead”.
Ahh, I didn’t know that the cardiac event happened before they arrived. I kinda thought he had passed out and then had the cardiac issues after the rmt had already been there.
If that’s the case an actual confirmation that he is even technically living would be against the odds by a decent margin. Having him be able to communicate with anyone in any meaningful way would be extremely unlikely.
Yeah, the dispatch audio is pretty telling. He was found unconscious in cardiac arrest, someone was performing CPR at his home, and they sent an ALS ambulance to his place. No shot he’s chatting it up with the other reps like a lot of them are trying to claim.
Even a teenager will have bones broken, but that is far less impactful to them.
It can happen, but it’s not nearly as likely. I think for someone under 18 something it’s likely 1 in 4 might crack a rib or something. But yeah, a cracked rib or two and some soft tissue damage is a lot less drastic than the types of trauma the elderly are nearly guaranteed to get doing the same compressions.
Their bones are just too brittle to take compressions without breaking, and effective compressions take quite a bit of force.
I thought broken ribs were normal even for an otherwise healthy young person getting chest commissions.
It’s fairly common, about 30-70% percent of the time, usually depending on age. CPR is just usually done on older people, so the data can be skewed. Normally it’s just some damage to the connective tissue, or a cracked rib or two. People above 65 can acquire much more severe injuries though.
If he’s dead then there would have to be a death certificate.
My bet is on him being a vegetable and them not doing anything til that August timeline they want to get past.
I think he’s probably “alive”, more than likely put on intubation. However, death certificates can be closed from public access in most states for quite a while. I know in my state you can have them sealed for 50 years.
This is TRANSPARENCY!
-Republicans!
Stop asking questions! Here, have a few more blacked-out emails from the [redacted]-Epstein emails.
Meanwhile, McConnell’s wife, former cabinet member Elaine Chao, reportedly returned to the US on Tuesday after a trip to China. Some observers had seen her willingness to travel abroad as evidence of McConnell’s stable condition.
Uhh… no.
More like her looking for a new home
More of working out how to get another in to the USA government with someone with power to push Chinese business.
Praying for your speedy death Mitch!
speedyslow agonizing painful complete misery that never gets a satisfactory end
Why did the voters elect him with his health issues and age anyways?
Because a lot of Americans don’t pay any attention to the news. A lot of people had no idea he wasn’t 100% fit for the job when they voted for him.
you say this like they would not vote for him now even if they knew every detail about his health
A lot of states have what is called straight-ticket voting. So a voter will come into the booth without being informed on any particular politician check the box at the top that says Republican and return the ballot.
He didn’t offend any party insiders enough to get primaried. Then in the general election he was the only one running for that office with an R beside his name. For a majority of voters in his district, that’s all that’s relevant.
one down, praying for about 400 more
He’s been treated for death. spoiler: it won’t work. cool. hurry up and die you old rotten sackball.
Didn’t someone say he was brain dead?
…by that I mean “clinically”, cause …ya, what’s new?
Brain dead? So he’s improved since he was last seen in the senate?
I’m wishing him decades of vegetative state and lots of bed sores.
He’s fine! Just needs hydration!
