I was wondering the same manitas. Dave Swan is a professional so must have reasons for his comments. Perhaps the way they work is different in the UK? or perhaps they are thinking of maybe a little later in the process?

The only thing I do know is the guy who suggested it has worked as a paramedic and has also worked on the regions air ambulance; and I presume the idea would also have been discussed by colleagues before the idea being promoted.

The only other thing I do know is between Oct last year and early this year, we had cause to call the East Anglian Ambulance service 3 times, 2 being worries over my father, one of which was a suspected stroke (turned out to be post stroke epilepsy) and one me having a fit as a result of alcohol withdrawal).

I also watched that Air ambulance service in action a few weeks ago (sonds bad but I could watch from our woods and was interested in seeing how they dealt with it [not in blood and gore - I faint at that!] when there was a car smash (again) near me and they (fire brigade) cut the roof off a car before removing the guy and airlifting him to hospital.

It's kind of hard to know much of my own treatment (most of it stuff I learned like the ambulance pulled over to stop to give me an ECG before hostpital as in my state [3 fits in the end} I was pulling the "electrodes" off) as my times of consciousness are either blurred or non-existant, but I did witness these others and they were all dealt with calmly and slowly. There was no emergency rush panic.