A 26-year-old dental student in Connecticut died in an intensive care unit that was overseen by a remote "tele-health" doctor who pronounced him dead on a video screen, a lawsuit says.
Paramedics (at least in NJ) aren’t allowed to pronounce, but they’re what’s called online care (maybe, it’s online something), and so they feed vitals to a doc over the phone, and the doc says okay call it.
That’s fair and we can do that in Jersey as well (and I’m just an EMT). Obvious signs of mortality it was referred to as back in 2003 or 2004 when I first got my EMT.
Paramedics (at least in NJ) aren’t allowed to pronounce, but they’re what’s called online care (maybe, it’s online something), and so they feed vitals to a doc over the phone, and the doc says okay call it.
Medics can pronounce in the field in Florida for “injuries incompatible with life”, think rigor mortis, decapatations, already rotting corpses, etc
That’s fair and we can do that in Jersey as well (and I’m just an EMT). Obvious signs of mortality it was referred to as back in 2003 or 2004 when I first got my EMT.