Tom, Yes paramedic's can ues thrombolytics up here, I didn't think of that and stand corrected! I have read a wee bit more about this and is it written in report as a cardiac arrest situation. In which case the paramedic could have been of great use, but I still maintain that even if the technician got the patient to hospital and they survived a further 2 days then they did their job. I have also read something else quite disturbing about this in that the Paramedic knew the nature of the call and house was only 300 metres from the station. The story goes that the paramedic threw the keys at the technician stating "You go". If this is the case than that is completely unacceptable and a different story all together