I agree that we resuscitate in futile circumstances all to often, so how
does this square with the BAEM view that we should not certify patients in
the back of an ambulance. Surely a patient is as dead in the ambulance as
in a resus room. Whilst you continue resus in to the department before you
officially end it you tie up a number of staff. for no good reason. It is
interesting that this edict from BAEM appeared 18 months ago, was then
hastily withdrawn and hasn't been heard of again.
Simon McCormick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ray McGlone" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "Simon Mccormick" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2004 9:50 PM
Subject: Re: deceased skills training
> I agree. We need to teach staff when to stop... as well as when to start
> resuscitation.
>
> Ray McGlone
> Lancaster
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rowley Cottingham" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2004 6:13 PM
> Subject: Re: deceased skills training
>
>
> > I would go further. I am increasingly concerned at the number of clearly
> futile resuscitation
> > attempts that drag on and on through cycle after cycle, often on
children
> or young adults because
> > people are not brave enough to say that the person is dead. I regard
this
> as abuse of the newly
> > dead, and I have intervened countless times to stop them.
> >
> > Rowley Cottingham.
> >
> > Consultant in Emergency Medicine.
> >
>
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