When Is Dead Really Dead?

摘要

Scenario one: rescue 10 and Ambulance 15 are dispatched to a traffic crash with entrapment. Police on scene report a single vehicle into a concrete bridge abutment with a lone occupant who appears deceased. On arrival, EMT-firefighters find an approximately 16-year-old male driver lying across the front floor of a compact car with obvious open bilateral femur fractures, a rigid and distended abdomen, blood mixed with what appears to be cerebrospinal fluid draining from both ears, and no observable respirations or palpable pulses.