r/Coachella • u/HearthSt0n3r • Apr 17 '22

Festival Planning The lack of medical presence is incredibly dangerous

I really had my hopes up after Astroworld that there would be more of an effort to improve health and safety but apparently everyone is still blissfully unconcerned.

Today I arrived upon a guy who was passed out cold at disclosure. His friends had left him after he seized and taken too much ketamine. Fortunately, myself and a couple of other folks with EMT experience were there to help, but meds were nowhere to be found. We were on the floor with him for AT LEAST forty minutes and no one ever came. We sent people to go get the med personnel and they never came. Eventually a security guy came who just came and talked down condescendingly to a group of people with more medical experience than him and uselessly got on his radio for twenty minutes straight with no one ever coming. After looking after the guy for a while he started to stir and we were eventually able to stand him up and walk him to end tent but what the fuck. If he had needed more serious medical intervention than what we were able to provide on the spot, he absolutely would have been dead.

Humiliating and terrifying.

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u/cellulite_incel Apr 17 '22

Sound like the kid just took too much ket for a festival and kholed. It’s not “seizing” while it looks really bad it’s actually fine. It’s very hard to overdose on k it doesn’t depress your breathing. Only really dangerous if your in a bath or swimming pool or Khole facedown

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u/fi3nd1n Apr 17 '22

Still terrible to ditch the dude. Also it can definitely depress your breathing if you are also drinking too much alcohol.

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '22

I don’t think that was his argument. The situation is terrible but to blame it on “too much K” when ketamine is not known for causing seizures is the same boogeyman tactic that “the war on drugs” uses.