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If clinical death occurs unexpectedly, it will be treated as a medical emergency.

CPR will be initiated.

In a United States hospital, a Code Blue will be declared and Advanced Cardiac Life Support procedures used to attempt to restart a normal heartbeat.

This effort will continue until either the heart is restarted, or a physician determines that continued efforts are useless and recovery is impossible.

If this determination is made, the physician will pronounce legal death and resuscitation efforts will stop.