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From: aglew@ccvaxa.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: Re: CPR, First Aid, & Liability
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Date: Wed, 29-Jan-86 13:34:00 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 29 13:34:00 1986
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Nf-From: ccvaxa.UUCP!aglew    Jan 29 12:34:00 1986




Damn the torpedoes!
This becomes a moral question as well as a legal one.
If you come upon someone injured, know (or think you know) what the
appropriate first aid is, but are not trained in it:
seek trained help. If there is no trained help, and it does not
appear that the subject will survive long enough to get to trained
help, I would help to the best of my knowledge nontheless.
Damn the legal consequences - all they can take is my money.

The Canadian Royal Life Saving Society posed this problem for us
in terms of spinal injuries: what do you do if you come on someone floating
face-down in the water with an apparently broken back? turning them over,
or even attempting to apply AR from underneath, might cut their spinal
cord. I always think of such a situation happening if I am on a cycle
trip with a  friend in Northern Ontario, swimming and diving in a lake.