worked my first code tonight...

Don’t know. I can only make an educated guess by her condition and say she will most likely not pull through. But I am not a Dr. I am an EMT. Even if we never got her heart going again and she was dead and we knew it, we can not stop CPR. Only a Dr can pronounce them as dead. We only treat what we see, we can not diagnose. I have taken people in before with fractured bones and what not. Even though there is a new angle to their leg or arm or w/e, and it is obvious that it is broken, I can not say it is a fracture because I am only an EMT and not a Dr. I have to report it as a painful swollen deformity. To say it is definitely a fracture is a diagnosis, and we can’t make those, same as saying someone is dead. Only way we can do that is if we get a conformation call and have to confirm they are dead, but those are different circumstances and usually an intermediate or paramedic, but if it happens when we are there they are alive until a doctor says they are dead.