• Korhaka@sopuli.xyz
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      Might vary by location, UK guidelines:

      Obvious examples that may not require the attendance of a medical professional to pronounce death would be a decapitated or badly decomposed body, multiple body disruptive trauma, where a body is severely burnt or has been subjected to prolonged submersion or has been predated by animals (where the body is missing essential parts).

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      I was an EMT and we were taught you do CPR until pronouncement, except if there’s obvious signs of mortality, of which decapitation is one. Livor/rigor mortis. Shoes off. All obvious signs of mortality.