Four out of five New Yorkers who go into cardiac arrest die as the FDNY’s response times to medical emergencies continue to soar.

City firefighters and medics revived just 20% of all cardiac-arrest patients during the fiscal year ending June 30, the worst success rate since the FDNY began documenting the statistic more than a decade ago, according to the annual Mayor’s Management Report.

“It’s absolutely shocking to learn that four out of five cardiac-arrest calls in New York City end in the death of a patient,” Andrew Ansbro, president of the Uniformed Firefighters Association, told The Post.

“New York City needs to address the ever-increasing response times and volume of calls with more resources for the FDNY. We are responding to more life-threatening calls than ever before, slower than we have ever been, and the results are far too often fatal.

“The FDNY needs to figure out why we can’t get fire trucks and ambulances there fast enough, and we need to reverse this trend,” Ansbro added. “We’re talking about literally thousands of lives lost every year . . . and survivability is directly related to response times.”

For a third straight fiscal year, FDNY firefighters and medics took longer to get to medical emergencies.

Combined response times by FDNY ambulances and fire companies to “life-threatening medical emergencies” were 10 minutes and three seconds in FY 2024, up 13 seconds, or 2.2%, compared to the previous 12 months.

Cardiac cases not treated with CPR in eight minutes usually end in death, and brain damage is common if untreated after five minutes, experts say.

Survival for cardiac arrest patients could be as high as 90% if treated within the first minutes.

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