How many hospitals allow practising procedures on dead people by students? Do you prolong codes in order to allow the students lots of time to be successful? Do you charge for those procedures that are done after the code is obviously going to be unsuccessful (ie asystole since found 40min ago).
And even worse...Do you open the morgue so students can practice on newly dead during slow times?
I think that all these are insane but I am a minority of one at my hospital, because
"how else will they learn,
it leaves no permanent mark on the body,
it doesn't hurt the patient,
and if the public needs practitioners with excellent skills in an emergency situation they have to tolerate (and pay for) procedures on the dead"
So who is right? I need input from both sides so I can decide what MY response will be in these situations.