Unplanned home births

[HotI]

my experience is only following car accidents, but if they need to do resuscitation it happens before the person is transported.

[nickle730]

my experience is only following car accidents, but if they need to do resuscitation it happens before the person is transported.

Hey HotI, we often continue resuscitation efforts en route to hospital - in the case that there are any signs of life (a person in cardiac arrest often still makes some respiratory effort, for example), drug overdose, hypothermia, drowning, children or where the family requests that resuscitation efforts continue are some of the scenarios where we would likely continue resus during transport. A person who is in cardiac arrest due to a traumatic cause is less likely to be successfully resuscitated, but we still often continue resus efforts on these patients en route to hospital. We only cease - or don't begin - resuscitation when our efforts are clearly futile or if it is a case of an obvious death (rigor mortis, lividity, decapitation etc.).

Sorry for the multiple responses to other posts, I don't know how to respond to multiple posts in one go.