Tort Law is the same throughout the Country.
Please explain how do you expect a patient in Cardiac Arrest to receive Cardiac Medications??
They can’t give permission because their heart has stopped!!
It’s called “Implied Consent”.
I’m going to consent for them because any reasonable person in the same situation would want life saving medications to save their life.
“General Consent”………Consent by verbal or written declaration to any necessary medical treatment.
“Informed Consent”……………….I tell you what medical procedure is needed or what medications are ordered before the treatment begins and you give consent each step of the way.
Someone unconscious can not give General Consent or receive Informed Consent.
The medical professional tending to them uses Implied Consent assuming any reason person under the same circumstances would want the treatment.
Implied Consent isn’t just for unconscious patients……..patients not aware of person, place or time……..patients suffering from a psychotic episode, drugs and alcohol, and Minors.
Equating a virus with a 99.8% survival rate with an emergency MI is your first mistake.
Your second mistake would be attending to someone like me with adequate malpractice insurance.
Now police those bedpans!