Double pump. Blood carries oxygen and many other substances around your body. Oxygen from your blood reacts with sugar in your cells to make energy. The waste product of this process, carbon dioxide, is carried away from your cells in your blood. Your heart is a single organ, but it acts as a double pump.
On average, an ambulance company will charge anywhere from $350 to as much as $2,000 for a trip without insurance. Even with health insurance, an ambulance ride may not be covered 100 percent. According to this LaTimes.com article, a patient was billed more than $1,538 for her ambulance ride.
City ambulances are taking nine and a half minutes to get to the scene of life-threatening emergencies, new data show. The average EMS response time was 9 minutes 23 seconds in the six months from June to December 2013 â the first time the city has counted from the moment a caller reaches 911. And it seems to be getting worse, not better: For the first two months of this year, the number was an even higher 9 minutes 42 seconds.