Understand that in-hospital personnel have different operating constraints - operating outside those constraints (literally, outside their place of employ) can violate law. However, “Good Samaritan” laws typically protect bystanders enacting simple measures - abdominal thrusts, hemorrhage control, CPR, etc. - because…

First, my bona fides: six-year civilian paramedic (state and National Registry certified) in mixed urban and rural system averaging 60-65,000 EMS calls annually; eight-year firefighter in the same system functioning as non-transporting first responder. Bachelor’s degree holder from four-year university; net public…