Originally Posted By: RAS
Originally Posted By: Leigh_Ratcliffe
. . .One other point and at the risk of offending everyone, administering a drug, if you are not a MD or ERT makes you liable in law for the consiquences.
Hmmm. . . since I can't force someone to take aspirin and can't chew it for them, what if I make a couple aspirin tablets available to an apparent heart attack victim; am I liable for the consequences if he dies?


Not if you are acting as of a good will. Good Samaritan laws will protect you unless sleazy lawyer can prove that you intended harm. And he can't unless you were treating your monther-in-law. Reason why a lot of people don't want to deal with it is because if proceedings ever happen it is a drag. I show up on the calls all the time when chest pain victims get ASA from bystanders. No harm done. Never ever in my career I had ASA given to pt for stroke.
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