• Dadifer@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    When your heart stops, you are considered dead no matter how viable your brain tissue is.

    Source: I have pronounced many persons dead.

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      1 month 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 month 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.