By Megan Ogilvie
The Toronto Star
TORONTO — “Sir, sir, can you hear me okay?” shouts Rick St-Pierre, as he leans over a body splayed on a stretcher. “We’re just going to give you some oxygen.”
Two paramedics are working on a 55-year-old male patient with chest pains who is being transported from Minden’s small community hospital to Toronto General, the province’s top cardiac centre. Their patient has been unresponsive for almost two minutes.
Suddenly, the numbers on the heart monitor plummet, and Jeremy Knight places two fingers on the side of the patient’s neck.
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