For those of you that have CCW, are you certified by the AHA for CPR and AED?

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Would I use an AED on somebody I just ventilated in my house in the dark of night? Yep, and I'd probably giggle when the machine said, "Press.Shock.Button.Now."
 
Not really the point....how many cases against people who performed CPR did you see? How many successful cases did you see?
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Yeah, we are getting far afield, but I'll make it quick. To be clear, I represented professional clients, physicians, individual nurses, or entities such as hospitals that were legally responsible for the acts of their employees. A very high proportion of the cases involved death and included some resuscitation attempts. Plaintiff's attorneys generally alleged negligence/malpractice generally, meaning without a specific theory as to what occurred that was allegedly malpractice, then tried to develop as many parallel theories of malpractice as possible (developed through their own expert testimony). In other words, almost every case included theories about malpractice occurring during the resuscitation attempt. Success? Most cases resulted in a settlement. Some small, some large. We did however take a relatively high number of cases to trial, and hung a few goose-eggs on the plaintiffs.

Back to the point: AHA or ARC, in my opinion would provide the STANDARD OF CARE in a malpractice case concerning CPR (and ACLS etc). As far as I know, they don't defend anyone in any way. Instead their guidelines would set the legal benchmarks which would be used (in part) to delineate that slippery line above which we call reasonable care and below which we call a breach of reasonable care which could lead to a successful lawsuit against the care provider.

Clear as mud?
 
silly stuff. I am not certifed as a CPA, or a RDH either, and that has no bearing on my carrying a handgun to protect myself and my family. Geez
 
Mannlicher,

If one of your loved ones is injured in any altercation you might find that first aid and CPR IS what saves your family. Not to mention a car wreck or other accident.

I keep a very good first aid kit in both of our cars just in case. I didn't take the courses out of compasion to save a bad guy. Others can be hurt to and help may be needed.
 
As a trainer in the gym, I keep my certs updated. While I'm not in the gym now, I still keep it updated non the less.
 
One of these days I want to get certified as an EMT. For now, I have my CPR/AED certification and drive an ambulance in my spare time (because I have so very much spare time.) :)
 
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