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When a patient arrives in the emergency department for resuscitation, everything possible will be carried out to resuscitate them. Some will survive, while many go through a range of trajectories and eventually die. This chapter reflects on the collapse to death career of seven patients through various phases en route to a mortuary and considers some of the legal, ethical, practical and emotional challenges faced by emergency doctors when managing the sudden death event in the emergency department.
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Clancy, J. (2020). Sudden Death: An Emergency Medicine Perspective. In: Scott, T. (eds) Sudden Death: Intervention Skills for the Emergency Services. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33140-5_5
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