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Under what conditions would you not resuscitate?
- Hemicorporectomy - Massive cranial or cerebral destruction - Massive truncal injury incompatible with life including decapitation - Decomposition/putrefaction - Incineration - Hypostasis - Rigor mortis - Fetal maceration
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When can resuscitation be discontinued?
- Presence of a DNAR - Patients death is expected due to long term illness - Submersion of adults for longer than an hour - Submersion of a child for longer than 1.5 hours
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What conditions must all be present to make resuscitation futile?
- 15 minutes since onset of collapse - No bystander CPR prior to ambulance arrival - Asystole on ECG for more than 30 seconds - Absence of exclusion factors