Figure 2From: Fire fighters as basic life support responders: A study of successful implementationFlowchart of patients. * Cardiac arrest: patient unresponsive and with abnormal or no breathing but not presumed dead due to post-mortem rigor and livor mortis. ** Post-mortem rigor and post-mortem livor present. *** Due to arrival of ambulance and/or Mobile Emergency Care Unit before the automatic external defibrillator could be attached, for example.Back to article page