declared dead by paramedics found alive hours later

[Doomsday101]

A car crash victim was declared dead by two paramedics, who then left the scene, leaving him trapped in the wreckage—only for other emergency responders to find the man alive more than an hour later.

The 30-year-old, who crashed his Porsche early Sunday in Melbourne, Australia, was being loaded into a coroner's van when it was noticed that he still had a faint pulse.

While the victim remains in critical condition in a Melbourne hospital, ambulance chiefs pledged to hold an internal inquiry to discover how the extraordinary mistake occurred.



Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/...ve-hours-later/?test=latestnews#ixzz1quhHtdAx

 

[Doomsday101]

Like a scene out of a monty python movie. Ok he is dead.... I'm feeling better

 

[Sarge]

Lawsuit.

 

[CanadianCowboysFan]

Like a scene out of a monty python movie. Ok he is dead.... I'm feeling better

yeah that is a classic scene, throw out your dead, throw out your dead, I'm not dead yet, oh shut up

 

[Hostile]

In the US paramedics cannot pronounce someone dead, only a coroner or a doctor can. They certainly wouldn't be allowed to leave the scene.

 

[Cowboys&LakersFan]

Bet they feel like morons.

 

[big dog cowboy]

Tow truck operator Trevor Oliver said the man was left hanging upside down in his mangled car for about an hour before being pulled on to the ground and covered in black plastic.

That would royally suck.

 

[YosemiteSam]

yeah that is a classic scene, throw out your dead, throw out your dead, I'm not dead yet, oh shut up

It's "bring out your dead". Classic Canadian mistake.

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[The30YardSlant]

Paramedics cannot declare someone dead in the United States precisely because of things like this.

 

[YosemiteSam]

Paramedics cannot declare someone dead in the United States precisely because of things like this.

I'm not a paramedic, but you're dead to me.

Hmmm. I can declare people dead.

 

[CanadianCowboysFan]

It's "bring out your dead". Classic Canadian mistake.

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a fact you only knew after googling it

 

[ScipioCowboy]

In the US paramedics cannot pronounce someone dead, only a coroner or a doctor can. They certainly wouldn't be allowed to leave the scene.

And that's one reason, among many, why we rule the world.