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    2 days ago

    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.

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        1 day ago

        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.

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            1 hour ago

            Thanks for pointing that out Captain Obvious. And I earned the tee shirt for needing to make that decision-- more than once.