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minus-squareDadifer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·28 days agoWhen your heart stops, you are considered dead no matter how viable your brain tissue is. Source: I have pronounced many persons dead.
minus-squarebluewing@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·28 days agoNo it’s not. It only becomes a criteria when you can no longer reasonably be sure that it can’t be restarted. Source: Retired medic that has pronounced my share of dead people AND restarted a few hearts also.
minus-squareDadifer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·28 days agoThis is like saying your car battery isn’t dead because I’m able to jump start it.
minus-squarebluewing@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·27 days agoSo why do we do CPR? Why do we use AEDs? Was all the CPR I have done a waste of time? Dead means you are going to stay that way. Dead is irreversible. And until I and/or a doctor say you are dead, you are not. You are just maybe dead.
minus-squareDadifer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·27 days agoDead means dead if you don’t do anything about it
minus-squarebluewing@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·26 days agoThanks for pointing that out Captain Obvious. And I earned the tee shirt for needing to make that decision-- more than once.
minus-squareDadifer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·26 days ago? There seems to be some question on here.
When your heart stops, you are considered dead no matter how viable your brain tissue is.
Source: I have pronounced many persons dead.
No it’s not. It only becomes a criteria when you can no longer reasonably be sure that it can’t be restarted.
Source: Retired medic that has pronounced my share of dead people AND restarted a few hearts also.
This is like saying your car battery isn’t dead because I’m able to jump start it.
So why do we do CPR? Why do we use AEDs? Was all the CPR I have done a waste of time?
Dead means you are going to stay that way. Dead is irreversible. And until I and/or a doctor say you are dead, you are not. You are just maybe dead.
Dead means dead if you don’t do anything about it
Thanks for pointing that out Captain Obvious. And I earned the tee shirt for needing to make that decision-- more than once.
? There seems to be some question on here.