Let's Double Check that Strip

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'Dead' man walking, morgue staff running

October 08 2004 at 09:36AM

By Thobani Ngqulunga

Mortuary attendants in Durban were shocked this week when a man, who had

been declared dead by paramedics and taken to a government mortuary,

suddenly started breathing and woke up in front of them.

Gale Street Mortuary Unit Commander Thegran Moodley said: " The man had been

involved in a car accident somewhere in the Umbumbulu area at the weekend.

After the paramedics had certified him dead, my staff were called in to

fetch the body. "

After arriving at the mortuary the attendants had been preparing to label

the body when the man had started breathing heavily and had woken up.

" The attendants ran away because they were shocked, " said Moodley.

" We called the paramedics to come and attend to this person who had regained

life. They took him to King VIII Hospital for treatment. "

Hospital staff confirmed on Thursday night that a man had been sent to the

hospital from the Gale Street mortuary, but refused to give any details.

Moodley said the attendants were being treated for shock.

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What is the difference between " dead " and " asystole " ? Seems like a fine line

(Just like that fine line between Saturday night and Sunday morning).

Jeez, where did common sense fail to enter this? A paramedic is just as

capable of determing death as I am. It is the easiest diagnosis to make.

There is a paralysis of intelluct entering into EMS that is hard to

understand.

E. Bledsoe, DO, FACEP

Midlothian, TX

Re: Let's Double Check that Strip

Dr. B...

Don't you follow the conversation on here lately...we don't run strips on

people we " know " are dead...because we would have to treat asystole...

Dudley

[Guest guest]

What is the difference between " dead " and " asystole " ? Seems like a fine line

(Just like that fine line between Saturday night and Sunday morning).

Jeez, where did common sense fail to enter this? A paramedic is just as

capable of determing death as I am. It is the easiest diagnosis to make.

There is a paralysis of intelluct entering into EMS that is hard to

understand.

E. Bledsoe, DO, FACEP

Midlothian, TX

Re: Let's Double Check that Strip

Dr. B...

Don't you follow the conversation on here lately...we don't run strips on

people we " know " are dead...because we would have to treat asystole...

Dudley

[Guest guest]

What is the difference between " dead " and " asystole " ? Seems like a fine line

(Just like that fine line between Saturday night and Sunday morning).

Jeez, where did common sense fail to enter this? A paramedic is just as

capable of determing death as I am. It is the easiest diagnosis to make.

There is a paralysis of intelluct entering into EMS that is hard to

understand.

E. Bledsoe, DO, FACEP

Midlothian, TX

Re: Let's Double Check that Strip

Dr. B...

Don't you follow the conversation on here lately...we don't run strips on

people we " know " are dead...because we would have to treat asystole...

Dudley