Crash Team call?

[guest1008923]

I am a health care support worker, and tonight, a patient suffered a sudden cardiac arrest. He was found by another support worker, and was already dead when found.

She pulled the emergency buzzer, and a staff nurse ran in. She began to call for someone to phone the crash team, but a doctor ran in at that moment, and she stopped mid-sentence to return to the patient. I assumed this meant because a doctor was present that she didn't need the number called.

A few minutes pass, and then the support worker that was with the patient came through and put in a call to the crash team herself. However, a few minutes later, she came back to cancel the call as the doctor had determined the patient was dead.

A crash team.nonetheless arrived, and they determined that they should try to save him. After 30-45 minutes, the team found that they could do no more and he was officially declared dead.

My question is, was I wrong to assume that because the nurse rushed back in with the doctor instead of insisting on a crash team call, that it wasn't needed at that time?

[darren_callcareer18]

I think it depends on the protocol of your place specially if the patient is full code. In my opinion, there’s no harm to call the crash team so atleast it can be documented that every possible steps were exhausted to save the patient considering it is a sudden death.