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

1. A patient who is not viable and for whom resuscitation efforts would be fruitless
   . Unconscious
   . No pulse
   . No respiration
2. EMT or Emergency responders use this as a basis for reading the vitals and if a person may be helped
3. The term “Triple Zero” clearly alerts hospital personnel that a patient has suffered irreversible
   biological death
4. This trigger phrase indicates a patient who is unconscious, non-breathing, pulseless, has no breath/heart sound & has indications of death

Expanded info:

1. 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

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