emtstudent04
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Dang 2 hours? That's a long time.
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Yeah try waiting the back of the ambulance for that long with an intubated body in the summer heat. It starts making weird sounds, and a pretty nasty organic cocktail starts slowly coming up the ET tube.Dang 2 hours? That's a long time.
Yeah try waiting the back of the ambulance for that long with an intubated body in the summer heat. It starts making weird sounds, and a pretty nasty organic cocktail starts slowly coming up the ET tube.
Thats interesting. I know it varies by region, but I find it slightly difficult to believe that they would let an EMT-B call it. Maybe they just wanted someone to say it out loud.
Two questions, mainly for my curiosity:
1. Can paramedics declare someone dead, or does a physician need to do that? If so,
2. Does that physician need to be on-scene? (assuming this is an out-of-hospital scenario)
Thanks!
Medics CANNOT declare someone dead a physican has to. The physician does not have to be on scene its over the radio.
Thats what they did when i went on a call for a Pt that had coded we did CPR for a lengthy period of time they finally got on the radio contacted the base hospital and the physician pronounced the Pt.
Two questions, mainly for my curiosity:
1. Can paramedics declare someone dead, or does a physician need to do that? If so,
2. Does that physician need to be on-scene? (assuming this is an out-of-hospital scenario)
Thanks!
Nice job Cliff. Too bad you did not declare death on this thread which was almost 6 years dead...
I was hardly out of my mid 20s when I replied to this, now I'm 33....Nice job Cliff. Too bad you did not declare death on this thread which was almost 6 years dead...