Where you taught when you can exceed the legal limits to your practice?

Were/are you told you can exceed your legal scope of practice in "a real emergency"?

  • No, never

    Votes: 39 79.6%

  • Yes, it is an opinion amongst my coworkers.

    Votes: 7 14.3%

  • Yes, by my boss or service.

    Votes: 4 8.2%

  • Yes, by one or more of my EMS instructors.

    Votes: 4 8.2%

  • Yes, it is something I came upon on my own.

    Votes: 2 4.1%

  • Good Samaritan Law will protect me no matter when or where as long as it saves the pt.

    Votes: 1 2.0%
  • Total voters
    49
  • Poll closed .
Silver, welcome back.

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mycrofft said:
I just had this vision of your ambulance pulling into a drive through pharmacy pickup, handing the radio to the tech through their window, and getting supplies, lights spinning all the while.

OK, for the readers at large, what would be worse to you: when definitive care is hours away, to either watch a patient die , or to hasten his death by attempting something out of scope (with or without medical control or other guidance by radio)?
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Yikes thats a tough one to ponder.

I guess the latter would be harder for me to handle. Even if the patient was going to die if no matter what i did (or didnt do), causing harm by attempting a procedure outside of my scope would be a tough call for me.
 
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