Eagle River woman dead - Whittier, Alaska

[wgw04024]

In a lot of countries you are legally obliged to continue CPR until a medical doctor tells you to stop.
It must be hell for the survivors mentally and physically, I get cramps after 2 minutes on a demo dummy

So what exactly would they do if you stopped?

 

[Boarderguy]

So what exactly would they do if you stopped?

That depends on why you stopped. If you're physically incapable of continuing then nothing. If you just decide it isn't worth it then I'm sure there is some obscure manslaughter charge or civil suit the estate could levy against you.

 

[wgw04024]

That's far to vague to even consider worrying about from a law point of view.

 

[Hoyden]

In a lot of countries you are legally obliged to continue CPR until a medical doctor tells you to stop.
It must be hell for the survivors mentally and physically, I get cramps after 2 minutes on a demo dummy.

Can you give us examples of these laws?

Jackie

 

[Vicko]

Can you give us examples of these laws?

Jackie

Most of Eu countries, you can be fined or even jailed if you did not render aid when you were able to.
You also can't be sued if you made things worse while doing it.

 

[DandyDon]

120 minutes of CPR is a long time.

Either way, if I could physically keep it up, I'd hate to give up. The news story mentions "officers" so I guess that there were at least two who took turns with compressions and mouth-to-mouth until paramedics could arrive. I admire their heroic attempts and am sorry they left the scene defeated.

An hour and 20 minutes is 80 minutes, but your point stands.

 

[wgw04024]

Can you give us examples of these laws?

Jackie

It must be the 'good samaritan law', they highlighted this in the final episode of Seinfeld....

 

[BlueTrin]

It must be the 'good samaritan law', they highlighted this in the final episode of Seinfeld....

It’s “duty to rescue” Duty to rescue - Wikipedia

It’s different from a Good Samaritan law.

 

[DandyDon]

It’s “duty to rescue” Duty to rescue - Wikipedia

It’s different from a Good Samaritan law.

Except that says there is usually not one: "In the common law of most English-speaking countries, there is no general duty to come to the rescue of another.[1] Generally, a person cannot be held liable for doing nothing while another person is in peril"

 

[wgw04024]

Considering this, all someone would need to do would be to say they 'don't know how', or (as politicians do) 'forgot' how to do cpr properly.