The current views of medical experts changes so rapidly though its hard to keep up.
I have been searching invain to get a definitive answer on when give CPR to hyperthermia victims. One source says do another don't. Am i going to get sued for making the wrong judgment.(quote)
I don't think there's really an answer to these types of issues. The best you can do, and defend your actions by if necessary, is that at the time, on the balance of the evidence at hand, your efforts were to help and not to harm and that your actions were not done recklessly or without consideration.
Never easy, one of my sons playmates ran away from his mother in a temper and was hit by a car. Two passing nurses turned him over (with all due care) on the road to administer cpr, by all evidences the child was dead. He's alive now, but his spinal injuries mean he will never walk. He was 3 years old. I know both the nurses and the mother and child, both still hurt watching a young man in the prime of life living it from a wheelchair. No one to blame.....just the way it goes. Everyone did their best, and for all the right reasons. A dead child or a damaged live one?
How much harder to make the decisions when remote from civilization too?
I hope I never have to make that judgement call.
Toddy