13 yr old has heart attack rounding the bases

[RCBSports]

If you know CPR and dont offer your assistance, you can be in trouble as well. I kinda like that, but it's harsh. Also what with you said about even if you don't know CPR. I think the law my just WV, but I am not sure. I know though, if you dont render assistance in full knowledge of the situation, you can get in a HUGE trouble.

-Lucas

[BigUmp56]

Originally Posted by RCBSports

If you know CPR and dont offer your assistance, you can be in trouble as well. I kinda like that, but it's harsh. Also what with you said about even if you don't know CPR. I think the law my just WV, but I am not sure. I know though, if you dont render assistance in full knowledge of the situation, you can get in a HUGE trouble.

-Lucas

I doubt very seriously that any individual bears any actual or implied responsibility to perform CPR if they have knowledge of the same. Perhaps a physician or another medical professional has such a responsibility, but not others.


Tim.

[w_sohl]

this falls under the good samaratin law and you can't be sued for attempting to render first aid as long as you don't foul things up further.

[tibear]

Fortunately, in most of Canada we have the good Samaritan law's and as long as you're trying to do something reasonable, even if it causes more harm you are not libel.

For example, if there is an auto accicent and the car is on fire. If you take an occupant out of the vehicle for fear of an explosion and it turned out that the action of moving the person caused them to be a parapalegic(sic) because the person had a broken neck, you cannot be found libel since taking the person out of harms way is a reasonable action.

[Welpe]

Originally Posted by tibear

Fortunately, in most of Canada we have the good Samaritan law's and as long as you're trying to do something reasonable, even if it causes more harm you are not libel.

For example, if there is an auto accicent and the car is on fire. If you take an occupant out of the vehicle for fear of an explosion and it turned out that the action of moving the person caused them to be a parapalegic(sic) because the person had a broken neck, you cannot be found libel since taking the person out of harms way is a reasonable action.

Can you be found slander though?

If I were Red Cross CPR/First Aid certified (which I am), I would render aid.

[gordon30307]

Originally Posted by Toadman15241

If this were to happen in your game to you help in CPR if you are not an EMT? Personally, I do because I feel that saving a life is more important than the potential lawsuit.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354591,00.html

A 13-year-old Little League player is in critical condition after he collapsed during a baseball game at his Boise, Idaho middle school.

Justin McAfee went in cardiac arrest as he was rounding the bases at Lake Hazel Middle School Wednesday night, according to IdahoStatesman.com.

Emergency crews who responded to the 911 call credited bystanders with helping keep the boy alive, it was reported.

"It looks like they did an incredible job with bystander CPR," Mike Nugent, paramedic supervisor with Ada County, told the Statesman."People did all the right things. There are hopeful signs."

McAfee, a ninth grader, was rushed to St. Luke’s Children’s Hospital in Meridian where he is currently being treated in the pediatric intensive care unit.

It was reported the teenager was in a coma, but that has been denied by hospital officials.

"To say that he’s in a coma is not completely correct," Beth Toal, the public relations manager at St. Luke’s, told FOXNews.com.

"His family has requested that we don’t release a lot of information about his condition," she added.

According to the American Heart Association, the reported incidences of out-of-hospital pediatric cardiac arrest vary widely from 2.6 to 19.7 annual cases per 100,000 children.

Causes include trauma, sudden infant death syndrome, respiratory issues, cardiovascular complications and drowning.

Most states (I believe) have "Good Samaritan Laws" that protect you if you go to someone elses aid. At least that's my understanding.

[mbyron]

Originally Posted by gordon30307

Most states (I believe) have "Good Samaritan Laws" that protect you if you go to someone elses aid. At least that's my understanding.

Most states? What, like 26? Maybe 32?