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Despite its bad reputation, fast food can actually save your life.
Wendy's employees in Middleburg Heights, Ohio, say a man came into the restaurant with his two sons on Dec. 27 and passed out.
"I looked down the line this way to make sure everything was okay and I heard a thud," manager John Meade told Cleveland's Fox 8 News. "By the time I turned around, he was on the floor."
Meade found the man bleeding on the floor when he instructed the staff to call 911 and take the man's two young sons to the office in the back of the restaurant. Then, Meade and another employee, John Mattice, took action of their own.
"I checked him for a pulse and everything and he had nothing, no vital signs at all," said Mattice.
Quick on their feet, Meade and Mattice performed chest compressions on the passed-out man until the Middleburg Heights Fire Department arrived and took the man to nearby Southwest General Hospital.
The customer's identity nor the reason he passed out has not been released, but he is expected to fully recover.
[Via Fox 8 News]
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1-04-2010 @7:47PM Chuckeee said... T o Jalepeno, Worry pas. Most, if not all States have a "Good Samaritan" law that covers "laymen" from being sued for aiding others. Only professionals, ( I.E. Doctors, nurses, EMTs and Paramedics are at risk from litigation. ) And even then, the professionals could only be sued if their aid was deemed irresponsibly done. Actually, the "pros" are more at litigation risk if they ignore someone at risk. Trust me, if I was without a pulse, I'd certainly prefer a good try than nothing at all. That's the way the Good Samaritan Law works... The courts DO recognize that with mere minutes between life and death, a sincere attempt beats doing NOTHING. THOUSANDS of folks have been at the brink of death and saved by "Non-Pros" doing CPR awkwardly. Personally, I'd hate to hear an EMT say... "He/She might have survived if someone had done CPR on him/her.
( Because I/We feared a lawsuit.) In some cities, an ambulance response time might be beyond the four to six minute difference. The statistics support this. Even if done not exactly to the Red Cross protocols, some have survived. The laws are on your side. Your choice... Try or someone dies... For SURE! If your daughter or son was at the border of life or death, How would you feel if you knew help was availiable, and no one dared try? Laymen cannot be sued for inadequate CPR in emergencies! Thousands of people are alive and walking because some did!
You can potentially be a hero, or.... Rue your wimpiness forever more?
A lawsuit worry versus... Some body's brother, sister, Dad or Mom DIES!
The Law of the land says....... NO culpability, At all! Bonus... You can sleep better, Knowing you were a good enough person that............ You tried!
The truth is... Even if not done "perfectly,"
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1-04-2010 @7:41PM Mark said... The baconator is now called the defibrillator. Enjoy !
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1-05-2010 @6:28AM Adryanna42 said... PLEASE someone help me, I am a single mom and it is in the 10's with lower wind chill weather I am out of heating Oil I know many people are hurting right now. But I am desperate. adryanna@aim dot com
Thank you so much
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1-08-2010 @1:38AM Gena said... I worked as an ER nurse for many years and in terms of the Good Sam laws, we were taught that unless the care rendered was seriously inept or or seriously outside your realm or practice the professionals were rarely subject to lawsuit.
It's a scary thing to be the first on the scene of an awful auto accident or a witnessed cardiac arrest, but I always told myself that if I was scared just think of the folks who have no training. That thought has helped me step in when necessary to initiate or assist in emergencies in the community.
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