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Bluelighter
backstory:
One Tuesday in January, after attending her first-year chemistry class, Sidney McIntyre-Starko texted her father looking for help with a physics question.
“Are you able to solve this? I’ve gotten all the other questions on this assignment, but I’m stuck here,” the University of Victoria science student messaged Ken Starko, an engineer.
It was 4:51 p.m.
Sidney, 18, then FaceTimed her mother, Vancouver emergency room physician Dr. Caroline McIntyre, at 5:07 p.m. She wanted her mom to pack a grey sweater for a family wedding they were to attend that weekend in Toronto.
“She was looking forward to the wedding, but was nervous to miss school on the Friday,” McIntyre recalled.
“She mentioned that she would not stay up late that night because she had an early lab or class in the morning.”
It would be their last conversation.
Five hours later, at 10:30 p.m., McIntyre and Starko received a frantic text from their son Oliver, a fourth-year UVic student, who had heard from his sister’s friend that Sidney had been rushed by ambulance to Royal Jubilee Hospital in critical condition.
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• Sidney and a friend who had also collapsed in the same dorm room were unconscious, struggling to breathe, and turning blue — a sign that the body is deprived of oxygen — when campus security officers arrived 3.5 minutes after being called. The officers carry naloxone and are trained in first aid, but they did not administer the medication for nearly 9½ minutes and did not start chest compressions for almost 12 minutes.
• Campus security never contacted 911 to explain the seriousness of the situation. Instead, a student who was high on drugs was the only person speaking with 911 for the first 8½ minutes of the call, despite the fact she had difficulty relaying information about what was happening.
• The 911 call-taker waited seven minutes before dispatching an ambulance to help the two students, even though she was told 3½ minutes into the call that they were unconscious after seizing.
• The call-taker, who eventually spoke directly with the security officers, did not ask about drugs until 11 minutes into the call and did not advise the officers to administer naloxone for 13 minutes. Fifteen minutes passed before she told them to do chest compressions, despite the second victim making loud gasps for air that were clearly audible during the 911 call.
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One Tuesday in January, after attending her first-year chemistry class, Sidney McIntyre-Starko texted her father looking for help with a physics question.
“Are you able to solve this? I’ve gotten all the other questions on this assignment, but I’m stuck here,” the University of Victoria science student messaged Ken Starko, an engineer.
It was 4:51 p.m.
Sidney, 18, then FaceTimed her mother, Vancouver emergency room physician Dr. Caroline McIntyre, at 5:07 p.m. She wanted her mom to pack a grey sweater for a family wedding they were to attend that weekend in Toronto.
“She was looking forward to the wedding, but was nervous to miss school on the Friday,” McIntyre recalled.
“She mentioned that she would not stay up late that night because she had an early lab or class in the morning.”
It would be their last conversation.
Five hours later, at 10:30 p.m., McIntyre and Starko received a frantic text from their son Oliver, a fourth-year UVic student, who had heard from his sister’s friend that Sidney had been rushed by ambulance to Royal Jubilee Hospital in critical condition.
[...]
• Sidney and a friend who had also collapsed in the same dorm room were unconscious, struggling to breathe, and turning blue — a sign that the body is deprived of oxygen — when campus security officers arrived 3.5 minutes after being called. The officers carry naloxone and are trained in first aid, but they did not administer the medication for nearly 9½ minutes and did not start chest compressions for almost 12 minutes.
• Campus security never contacted 911 to explain the seriousness of the situation. Instead, a student who was high on drugs was the only person speaking with 911 for the first 8½ minutes of the call, despite the fact she had difficulty relaying information about what was happening.
• The 911 call-taker waited seven minutes before dispatching an ambulance to help the two students, even though she was told 3½ minutes into the call that they were unconscious after seizing.
• The call-taker, who eventually spoke directly with the security officers, did not ask about drugs until 11 minutes into the call and did not advise the officers to administer naloxone for 13 minutes. Fifteen minutes passed before she told them to do chest compressions, despite the second victim making loud gasps for air that were clearly audible during the 911 call.
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Exclusive: How a B.C. student died after overdosing in a Victoria dorm — and the major mistakes her parents say were made that night
A 911 call reveals how University of Victoria student Sidney McIntyre-Starko, 18, overdosed in a dorm filled with people but did not survive
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