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Links Page
On this page many useful links to infomation about CPR & other related items.
Life Support Serivces 800-474-2778 |
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The American Heart Association is a national voluntary health agency whose mission is to reduce disability and death from cardiovascular diseases and stroke. The mission statement was affirmed by the Delegate Assembly at its meetings of June 1993, June 1996 and June 1999. The mission statement undergoes a formal review process every third year.
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MEDIC FIRST AID International is a worldwide innovator and leader in CPR/first aid emergency care training programs for business, industry, and the public. We have certified an international network of over 80,000 instructors, who have trained more than nine million first aid providers over the past 26 years. | |
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Medic First Aid® |
Specific counties for BLS/CPR initial training and retraining of First Responders and EMTs. Check the list below to determine if the county or counties you plan to teach in have approved BLSPRO. Click on the "Alameda County" link to the left for more info.
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Approval of
Medic First Aid® |
California Emergency Medical Services Authority to teach licensed child care providers. If you plan to teach licensed childcare providers you must include the topics in the California Pediatric Addendum. The California EMSA has also approved this course for use by school bus drivers. Click on the "EMSA of Cal." link to the left for more info. | |
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California Code of Regulations
Title-22 |
Title-22 Compliance means that you have read, understand & implemented the requirements for your AED Automated External Defibrillator/Program. Basically it requires that those business' that have AED's, must have a prescription for it, a training program in place & maintenance program to ensure the upkeep and readiness for use of that AED.
To read more click where you see "Title 22". |
Good Samaritan Law |
Tortfeasor: one who commits wrong; a wrongdoer.
It is for this fear, that the Good Samaritan Laws were enacted. The good Samaritan doctrine as it is legally known, is a legal principle that prevents a rescuer who has voluntarily helped a victim in distress from being successfully sued for 'wrongdoing.' Its purpose is to keep people from being so reluctant to help a stranger in need for fear of legal repercussions if they made some mistake in treatment. Therefore, this doctrine was primarily developed for first aid encounters and every state does have its own adaptation of it. However, the crucial points are about the same.
Good Samaritan doctrine - Black's Law 7th edition: 'A statute that exempts from liability a person (such as an off-duty physician) who voluntarily renders aid to another in imminent danger but negligently causes injury while rendering the aid. Some form of good-Samaritan legislation has been enacted in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
This is how the law reads verbatim. It is very straightforward as far as laws go, but there are some gray areas to it. The first questionable area is, 'unless the rescue attempt is unreasonable.' What this is referring to is when we provide care that is, by all accounts, unnecessary. Such as, removing an injured victim from a car that is not in imminent danger and the movement aggravates the injuries. Another example could be treating non-life-threatening injuries where the condition was worsened in the attempt, splinting a broken bone. Splinting requires moving the victim so we run the risk of causing an open fracture, etc. The other area in question, 'the rescuer acts unreasonably in performing the attempted rescue.
First of all, a person is not obligated by law to do first aid in most states, not unless it's part of a job description obviously. Some states will consider it an act of negligence though, if we don't at least call for help. Beyond this, assisting is optional and voluntary, partly due to preserving the rescuer's own health in the process. Without protective equipment the rescuer could be exposed to infectious diseases by coming into contact with a victim's bodily fluids. In short, we are not obligated to render first aid in fear of cross-contamination yet, if we begin to help, we must continue to do so until one of three things happen: the victim recovers, another trained person replaces you or we are too physically exhausted to continue. Stopping for any other reason is interpreted legally as, 'acting unreasonably.' Then the good Samaritan laws would offer us no protection if there were a tort suit.
Another doctrine for reference is the emergency doctrine.
1. A legal principle exempting a person from the ordinary standard of reasonable care if that person acted instinctively to meet a sudden and urgent need for aid-also termed imminent-peril doctrine;sudden-emergency doctrine; sudden-peril doctrine.
2. A legal principle by which consent to medical treatment in a dire situation is inferred when neither the patient nor a responsible party can consent but a reasonable person would do so.
This law makes a distinct difference between a lay person and a professional performing first aid. 'Exempting a person from the ordinary standard of care', this excludes professionals from being protected by good Samaritan laws in wrongdoing. It is specific, again, to a lay person. The second point defines a difference between a conscious and an unconscious victim, 'consent to medical treatment in a dire situation is inferred.' Where an unconscious victim cannot respond, we can help them anyway on the grounds of implied consent.
However, if the victim is conscious and can respond, we are to ask their permission to help them first. Otherwise we run the risk of not being protected under either doctrine if we should be sued. These types of suits are known legally as a tort suit, wrongful. No one has been sued successfully in a tort suit since these doctrines were instated, not that a rescuee could not try though.
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