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If a Paramedic answers an emergency call, but when they arrive, the bystander dies, what happens then?

If someone dies in an ambulance does the EMT call time of death or does the doctor do that after they arrive at the hospital?

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    What I was taught in school is that NO you can not call time of death, we are considered "Medical Investigators" if you will, not Doctors. So even if you pull a body out of the river on a rescue mission, they are freezing, non responsive you work on them, you secure their airway as unconcious patients can not, tube/bag ... ABC's and get them to the hospital. And then leave it at the door because you as an EMT/Medic did your best.

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