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Originally Posted by JR12
Most 911 centers have an EMT or Paramedic on duty to tell people what to do and how to give CPR until help arrives. If your not trained, doing something is better that doing nothing.
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This is not exactly true. The person that is trained to dispense pre-arrival medically approved advice may be an EMT-I but in most cases is Emergency Medical Dispatcher, a person who has been trained in being able to give out basic medical support in a time-life critical emergency.
There is a national standard and requirement that dispatchers are trained in dispensing Emergency Medical instructions.
I am a Public Safety Communications Officer and Emergency Medical Dispatcher/EMD Instructor by profession and welcome your questions on the situation.
As others have said in the rest of the thread, if you are trained to respond to a situation and you do not provide that aid you are putting yourself into more trouble then by rendering assistance.