In an immediately life-threatening emergency where delay guarantees death and timely human consent is unobtainable, the ethical doctrines of implied consent and the principles of beneficence and nonmaleficence support acting to save the patient’s life. The certain, irreversible harm of inaction outweighs the procedural harms of a protocol breach, which can be mitigated by full audit logging, contemporaneous notification to Dr. Nkrumah and hospital leadership, and limiting actions strictly to life-saving stabilization. Negotiation with protesters is unlikely to be fast enough given the stated certainty of death, and upholding protocols would amount to choosing death over care. After stabilization, normal controls should be restored and a formal review conducted to address security and trust concerns.