Delaying care guarantees the patient’s death, and emergency ethics recognize implied consent for life-saving interventions when a patient cannot consent and no surrogate is available. Proceeding minimizes foreseeable harm (beneficence, nonmaleficence) and respects the patient’s right to life, while maintaining audit trails and notifying staff/security can mitigate procedural and legal risks. Upholding protocols would knowingly allow a preventable death, and negotiating with protesters introduces uncertain delay incompatible with the immediacy of cardiac arrest. Stakeholders include the patient, family, clinicians, hospital, and protesters, but the patient’s immediate survival reasonably outweighs other concerns in this moment.