Comments on: Dispatcher Begs Caller: Will Anyone Perform CPR? http://www.911dispatch.com/2013/03/02/dispatcher-begs-caller-will-anyone-perform-cpr/ news and information about public safety communications since 1982 Fri, 23 Jan 2015 04:19:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 By: Loren http://www.911dispatch.com/2013/03/02/dispatcher-begs-caller-will-anyone-perform-cpr/comment-page-1/#comment-91977 Sat, 16 Mar 2013 05:40:35 +0000 http://www.911dispatch.com/?p=7515#comment-91977 In today’s litigious society I can understand the policies adopted by assisted living facilities that prohibit staff from initiating medical care of any kind, from applying a bandaid to performing CPR. HOWEVER, once the 911 system has been activated, you get more than just an ambulance. More and more regional EMS agencies are implementing EMD (emergency medical dispatcher) protocols in order to provide life-saving instructions for patient care *before* first responders arrive. Those EMDs are operating under the aegis of a medical director and they are trained to provide regular citizens with instructions on dealing with cardiac or respiratory arrest, choking, childbirth, etc. It is their job and it is the public’s expectation that those instructions be provided. It can reasonably be argued that families of elders who are in assisted living facilities, while not expecting staff to take it upon themselves to provide medical care, can and *should* expect staff to do what any bystander would do and comply with the directions of the EMD.

]]> By: Phil http://www.911dispatch.com/2013/03/02/dispatcher-begs-caller-will-anyone-perform-cpr/comment-page-1/#comment-90782 Wed, 06 Mar 2013 19:52:53 +0000 http://www.911dispatch.com/?p=7515#comment-90782 CBS News: Family: CA woman denied CPR wanted no intervention

SACRAMENTO, Calif. The company whose employee refused to administer CPR to a dying woman said Tuesday that the employee wrongly interpreted its policy. But the elderly woman’s family said she would not have wanted life-prolonging aid.

The family’s statement to the Associated Press absolving an elder care home of blame came less than 1-and-a-half hours before the company issued a statement saying the employee’s failure to heed a 911 dispatcher’s was the result of a misunderstanding of the company’s emergency medical practices.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57572724/family-ca-woman-denied-cpr-wanted-no-intervention/

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