A vacation at the ol’ triple zero.
Definition/Summary:
One Way Ticket:
- Permanent travel to a final destination “Death”
Triple Zero:
- When resuscitation is futile
Unconscious-No pulse-No respiration
Triple Zero
- A patient who is not viable and for whom resuscitation efforts would be fruitless
. Unconscious
. No pulse
. No respiration - EMT or Emergency responders use this as a basis for reading the vitals and if a person may be helped
- The term “Triple Zero” clearly alerts hospital personnel that a patient has suffered irreversible
biological death - This trigger phrase indicates a patient who is unconscious, non-breathing, pulseless, has no breath/heart sound & has indications of death
Expanded info:
- OOO’s
Decapitation
Thoracic/abdominal transection
Massive cranial/cerebral destruction of skull
Rigor mortis without profound hypothermia
Mummification or dehydration
Putrification
Incineration
Frozen state
Trauma where CPR is impossible