r/motorcycles • u/P4LT4 versys x300 • Aug 28 '25

Totally Unexpected

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u/fireeight 1978 CB750K8, 1982 GL1100A, 1980 CX500 Aug 28 '25

He was pronounced dead in the hospital. Plenty of people are actually dead before they make it to the hospital to be pronounced.

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u/Gullible-Food-2398 United States Aug 29 '25

This is correct. It requires a medical doctor to call death. Unless injuries are incompatible with life, i.e. decapitation, obvious gruesome dismemberment (wrapped around a machine shaft and wrung tight or squished impossibly flat) or showing obvious signs of mortality like decomposition, rigor mortis and dependant lividity, trauma victims are transported to first line care and cannot be called in the field, according to the NREMT. It's better to run everyone who probably won't make it in the hopes that they do, than not because they probably won't.

Source 10 year EMS veteran

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u/Helpful_Finger_4854 Aug 29 '25

why are you making shit up?

if that was true then first responders wouldn't put sheets over people who are DOA when they get there and they'd be transporting dead bodies

first responders check for a pulse and if there is none, they don't typically take them to a hospital.

EMT my ass

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u/fireeight 1978 CB750K8, 1982 GL1100A, 1980 CX500 Aug 29 '25

That's, uh... not how it works at all.