***NEW POLL***Knowing that you could be sued, would you still give emergency assistance?

Here in Minnesota, you are immune from lawsuits if you give aid to a person. HOWEVER, you must first determine if they are concious. If they are, you are required to ask if they want help. If they are unconcious, you don't need permission.

We were actually trained in public highschool how to do various first aid things like CPR, AED use, mouth to mouth, heimlich maneuver, splinting, stopping bleeding; all the good stuff. I have the added benifit of having two Family Practice doctors for parents who have been sharing interesting stories about patients for my whole 19 years of life which gives me an additional assortment of medical knowledge.

In another case, if you are a doctor and have taken the hypocratic oath, you are required to help someone who needs medical attention if they are unconcius or at least to ask if they want help.

Seeing as how I am trained in how to do all of this stuff, I would definately help if they let me.

An interesting tidbit about an emergency first aid situation is the concept of "diffusion of responsibility". The more people there are at the scene, the less likely someone will step up to the plate and help because everyone thinks someone else will take care of it. This is why you should never cry out, "Someone get/call item/person!". Chances are, nobody will respond. This is why you have to single someone out and say, "you with the green shirt, go call 911 and tell them (insert basic medical details)!"

So, once again, not only would I help, but I would be the one taking full control of the situation and giving orders. So, go me 8)

… IF you are not medically trained to do so, because one can cause further injury. I always carry a cell phone. The help I would give is to call emergency rescue, stop the bleeding (if needed) and comfort the victim the best that I could until help arrived.

The Good Samaritan laws say that you must at least call for help.

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I'll tell you this: My natural instinct to help some one survive in an emergency will always prevail over the cold-blooded laws that would hope to keep me from my humanity and the opportunity to help another! What the heck, the money I would be sued for - well, I don't have it! And, anyway, it's almost worthless, no matter how you slice it!

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If any of you guys are first aid or CPR certified you should have learned that, if conscious, you first have to ask permission from the victim to administer life saving techniques. Also, if you do have certification to help someone in such a situation but don't help, you can be held liable! So really, you can be held liable for helping or not helping someone! I guess the message is don't even learn how to!

All that's going to happen is that she's going to be a paraplegic with a lot less friends.

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This is really different and much more common than you are making it out to be.

I had a friend who's family was sued because he wrecked his car with other teen passengers. They didn't get anything.

People get sour when shit hits the fan. Does that mean people will stop driving their friends or giving them aid?

It sounds pretty doubtful to say the least.

Rockefeller or Hitler out of a burning car?

more over would you help if you (yourself) were impaired. Quite frankly being out drinking and driving (sounds like all of them were) you are asking for an assortment of problems, but you can get drawn into helping sitting in your garage. As I was a few years ago, my husband and I both licensed EMT's sitting in our garage having a few beverages and wham! a car bursts through a house at the end of our street. We quickly loaded up and DROVE down there about 8 houses away and rescued the DRUNK driver from the wreckage, held CSpine and secured her airway as she was drifting in and out. The medics said we did a great job so life was good. But my advice if you are impaired, you better not do anything - call 911, it's your civic duty - remember Sienfield final episode, they were all sued for lacking compassion or something similar.

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