HTC, fair point although a CFR can at least hold your airway open and do a bit of bagging. And yes, the clock-stopping is now all about a defib-trained individual.
Bertie, i've heard of those scenarios as well and that's clearly book-cooking on the targets. Ironically in those cases the 8-minutes is automatically met by the patient being in a hospital so there's no requirement to get anything there before 19mins and that has to be transport anyway.
Cheers
DAC