Yup.
New York is governed by lunatics.
That is my understanding too. I thought paramedics were
not allowed to pronounce death. That a physician was required to do so. Keep in mind the survival rate of those who are not revived in the field but are then brought to the ER is rather low. Essentially this is a triage order.
From “Strategies to Improve Cardiac Arrest Survival: A Time to Act.”: 4.”Emergency Medical Services Response to Cardiac Arrest”
“Even prolonged and expertly performed resuscitation at the scene will not always revive an OHCA patient. In these circumstances, EMS systems and personnel must decide whether to transport the patient to the hospital while continuing resuscitation efforts, or to terminate resuscitation. Multiple studies have found that survival is rare among OHCA patients who are transported to the hospital after failing to respond to BLS and ACLS treatment in the field; patients that do survive often suffer moderate to severe neurological deficits (Kellermann et al., 1993; Morrison et al., 2007). The documented decrease in CPR quality that occurs during patient transport almost certainly contributes to this low survival rate (Chung et al., 2010; Olasveengen et al., 2008). In fact, some experts question whether EMS systems should transport any cardiac arrest patients without ROSC, arguing that the most effective treatments for cardiac arrest—CPR and defibrillation—can be performed equally well or better in the field as compared to the hospital, and that interruptions in these treatments that occur as a result of transportation do more harm than relocating to the hospital does good (Adams and Benger, 2014).”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK321505/