What kind of personal AED do you have?

[CFal]

Side one: if the AED will not allow you to shock except when it will make things better, then anyone could have one and use them at will.

Side two: Slippery slope leading inexorably to getting beyond one's knowledge and certification.

If the machines were perfect we wouldn't need techs or doctors.


PS: Unless they changed the laws here in Calif, responding to a scanner or scanner app carried in your car is illegal.

SF fire has an app that alerts nearby citizens of arrests so they can beat them there

 

[cprted]

SF fire has an app that alerts nearby citizens of arrests so they can beat them there

There is a difference between an EMS agency alerting trained civilians nearby to help them at a scene and some guy who took a first aid course listening to a scanner and trying to jump on 911 calls.

 

[unleashedfury]

I'm sure the OP's intentions are of the greater good, but in the same way he needs to be aware of unintended consequences while we are in a world of litigious nut cases and ambulance chasers a subpoena could be tacked to him for his efforts

Also the fact of self dispatching to calls for assistance could spell trouble, my primary employer has a policy that prohibits off duty employees from responding to a scene (it's a liability thing, and workers comp won't cover you off duty self dispatching to incidents) as we had employees out in scanner land doing this

OP are you a certified EMT or FR? Or just a layperson? If this stuff interests you consider taking a course or become a volunteer at your local squad