Nice one...
...as a rule, paramedics don't always transport dead people - it ties us up from attending other cases and in most jurisdictions a deceased on scene needs to be left where is for the police / coroner. But there are exceptions, including cases such as where the body would be seen by the public and might cause them distress.
I've arrived at hospital a few times with the patient was deceased / died on route. We then need to get them to the hospital mortuary - and so pull the same trick. Face uncovered and oxygen mask on, nobody bats an eyelid as you wheel them past the patients in bed!
I liked the patient recently who asked me to cover his head with a sheet when we took him out to the ambulance "to give my bloody nosy neighbours something to talk about"!!
(emadex thinks the world will end on, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 2:05, Reply)