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'No on-site doctor': Dental student died in ICU overseen by remote 'tele-health' physician who pronounced him dead on a video screen, lawsuit says (lawandcrime.com)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
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[–] 43 points 7 months ago (5 children)

How is is legal to pronounce death without directly checking their pulse in person?

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  • [–] 36 points 7 months ago

    RNs can get the vitals that allows a pronouncement. I do it regularly for hospice folks and it certainly ain't my name on the death certificate. Having an RN verify vitals for an active code is a bit weird though. But so is running a code through telehealth.

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago* (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    Medics can pronounce in the field in Florida for "injuries incompatible with life", think rigor mortis, decapatations, already rotting corpses, etc

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