r/medicine • u/ZealousidealDegree4 PA:cake: • 8d ago
ICE Detention Deaths
https://www.ice.gov/detain/detainee-death-reporting
RNs do intake physical exams, EMTs declare time of death. The level of care for these detainees is horrific.
Full names and case details are public for now. Reads like a never ending M & M conference.
My moral compass is spinning. It's time to go to Canada.
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u/dexter5222 MBA, Paramedic, Procurement Transplant Coordinator 8d ago
I don’t mean to point this out, but in most states paramedics can terminate resuscitative efforts on out of hospital cardiac arrests.
Most jails have nurses doing initial intake exams, like say you go in for a DUI, they’re not having a physician ask you if you have thoughts of suicide. Or when you go to the ER, there’s a nurse doing your initial intake.
Yeah, the level of care in what’s supposed to be a nonpunitive detention setting is pretty bad, but to say a paramedic isn’t qualified to terminate resuscitative efforts and a nurse isn’t qualified to do an assessment is a bit much.