Cardiac arrest in accidental hypothermia: Work the patient or don't start resuscitation?

A wrongful death lawsuit for failing to initiate resuscitative efforts was filed against EMS providers by the family of Jake Anderson in late 2016. According to publicly available news sources, Anderson, 19, was found unconscious with no apparent signs of life in freezing temperatures and declared dead with no interventions or transport to a hospital. The plaintiff is alleging that the responders failed ...

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