Skip safety stop to assist diver to surface?

[SandyRobinson]

Here is a scenario I witnessed last weekend

A diver panics, bolts to the surface and is revived with rescue breathing from the near drowning.

If you are the "buddy" and you are at a depth where the PADI tables mandate a safety stop do you skip the stop to chase the diver up? (Safety stop not deco stop!)

A three minute delay assisting this diver could have changed a near drowning to a drowning!

If you do skip the safety stop, should you drop back down for a 4-1/2 minute stop (1.5 X 3) after passing off the injured diver to someone at the surface?

I would help my buddy. I would not resume the safety stop. The tables are fairly conservative and chances would be that I had an average depth shallower than the maximum depth I reached making them ever more conservative.