Transcript Chapter 1 Background Information

Glossary
• First = immediate
• Aid = care
• Deals with injuries or sudden illness
• DOES NOT replace the need for
medical care
• Properly applied, it may mean the
difference between life and death.
• Leaving a victim after starting to give
help without ensuring continued care
at the same level or higher.
• Do not leave a victim who needs
continuing first aid.
• Doing something that a reasonably
prudent person would not do under the
same or similar circumstances.
• Failure to do what a reasonably prudent
person with the same or similar training
would do in the same or similar
circumstances.
• When a first aider fails to provide the
type of care that would be given by a
person having the same or similar
training.
Negligence involves:
• Having a duty to act.
• Breaching that duty.
• Causing injury and damages.
• Exceeding your level of training.
•When employment requires it.
•When on duty.
•When a preexisting responsibility exists.
• Touching a person or providing first aid
without consent.
Consent must be obtained from every :
• alert person
• mentally competent person (able to
make a rational decision)
• person of legal age
verbally or nod of the head
• Unresponsive victim
• Child victim
• Mentally incompetent
•
life threatening condition and or parent or
guardian not available for consent
Encourage people to assist others in distress
by granting them immunity against
lawsuits.
Applies when rescuer is:
• Acting during an emergency
• Acting in good faith
• Acting without payment
• Not guilty of misconduct or negligence