I’m putting this story under “stupid” instead of “evil” because I really hope that these restaurant workers genuinely thought they were doing something good as opposed to stopping someone from possibly being saved by CPR.
If they actually stopped someone from doing CPR, that’s one thing. But the friends who were with him seem to also be furious that the waitstaff didn’t perform CPR themselves. If the friends didn’t know how to do so, why did they expect the waitstaff to know how?
Or possibly that the staff didn’t immediately and effectively summon help, that there was apparently no training or protocol to do so.
It’s not at all clear from that why they stopped the bystander from continuing CPR.
$30,000 seems a pretty paltry sum to be suing for.
Blackface again. Or should I say Blackface still?
What training do you think you can provide? Obviously Don’t be a stupid MFer failed with the event staff.
The only thing I can really think is that someone thought he wasn’t having a heart attack but rather choking or having a seizure or allergic reaction or some other medical event that CPR would, at best, do nothing but could actually make things worse.
“keep a stock and inventory of emergency response equipment” and “activate a known and expected emergency response protocol, including summoning trained personnel or securing and deploying an automated external defibrillator (AED), which was believed to be available on site.”
A few things bug me here. First of all, if you’re going to accuse someone of not deploying an AED that you “believe was on site” why would you not confirm whether or not there actually is one on site? Would it really have been that difficult for them to send someone down to the restaurant to nose around a bit and see if they could find one? Then at least you could accuse them of having one and not using it.
I’m also assuming you can’t (successfully) sue someone for not having an emergency protocol in place for medical events. But I could be wrong on that. I’m especially not familiar with laws that only come into play for larger employers. Though that type of thing, IME, tends to be more at the demand of your insurance company in order to keep your rates down.
Was an autopsy done? Do they know the actual cause of death? That article and one linked in it say that he died for unknown reasons a week after having a cardiac event. How can they claim that the doctors have no explanation for what happened, but it’s also, somehow, ARIA’s fault? How can a bunch of casino employees possibly prevent a death that happens for reasons even medical science (/s) can’t explain.
Look at it like this: I see a pedestrian get hit by a car and I just stand there and watch as they bleed out. I get sued for the wrongful death because I didn’t attempt to stop the bleeding or even call 911. Now, if their doctor said ‘we have no idea why he died’, I would think my lawyer would really lean on that statement.
WRT to the suit only being for $30k I’m guessing that’s either meant to be low enough that they’re hoping ARIA will just pay them to make it go away OR they actually have solid case and $30k represents something concrete. For example, if you remember the famous case of a woman suing McDonalds because the coffee was too hot. Before the multi-million dollar lawsuit that she won, she had originally asked them for the $20k in medical expenses she incurred. I could very much see the $30k being part or all of the hospital bill.
If there was no one on site trained as a first responder, then summoning help would be calling 911; which the friends presumably could also have done. (I gather that somebody did, though it’s not clear who.)[ETA: the article actually doesn’t say anything about it.]
Is it now considered standard for restaurants to have first responders on staff?
Server, EMT aren’t they really the same job with the same training in the end?
In the case of Flight Attendants, they actually are. Which is why I try to always be polite to them. Yes, the bring me my drink, but more importantly, they can also save my life.
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Now, note, in the US at least, there is no legal obligation for random passersby to intervene.
Actually, in some states, the act of getting involved to help may actually open you to legal consequences, though in some (but not others) there are good Samaritan laws to shield from that. In a private facility like a restaurant, it could very well be policy to only let certain trained staff directly intervene medically and to keep other patrons out of the way.
I don’t see what they did as either stupid or evil based on the information at hand. Jumping in and just starting chest compressions or allowing Jane Q RandomPerson to do so is not necessarily the best thing to do.
Sometimes the “obvious” thing is not as sensible as we like to think. I suspect the hotel has a strong case for what their staff did, as long as they had staff guidelines for medical emergencies (very likely for a large Strip hotel) and the staff followed those (who knows?).
Of course, the amount he’s asking for ($30k) is tiny in the grand scheme, which is kind of suspicious in its own way. It could go either way. The may pay him off to get rid of the suit or defend to avoid a spate of future such suits.
The offender here is a kid, so it’s hard to call him evil and put him in the other thread. But this kid needs to get some serious punishment. He broke the kid’s vertebrae, for friggin’ sake.
From the link:
A couple of games? WTF?
Why isn’t he banned for at least the rest of the season? The kid is huge, and the action was deliberate.
I don’t know, but the article made it seem like all the staff did was stand around and gawp (and prevent someone from doing CPR). The article is woefully short on useful information.
I really think there is a difference between “blackface” as a parody of race and other reasons for using black paint. I looked up the school. Want to guess what their school colors are? Red, silver, and black. So black paint, I bet those “white” wigs were supposed to be silver, and I bet the lettering was red. People paint themselves in team/school colors for games all of the time.
(And, ETA, actually looking at the photo provided, I see the lettering was white, and the paint was…poorly executed.)
And the white afros were?
As close to silver as they could find?
‘We were trying to do cat’s eyes and whiskers over whiteface like the team mascot and… well… things just didn’t go right.’
I agree that the article’s seriously lacking. But if the staff weren’t trained as first responders, or at least trained in basic CPR, the only suitable thing for them to do would have been to call 911 and to keep random bystanders out of the way.
And if any of them were trained in basic CPR, they may have seen some reason not to perform it. One of the things the article doesn’t provide is any mention of whether anyone had checked for breathing and/or heartbeat.
Are you suggesting that all of my medical training watching TV medical dramas is wrong?
It isn’t always: CPR until someone comes with the “CLEAR!” machine then an IV with Ringing Lactose or WD40?
I might actually need some medical responder training after all…
An IV with WD40* sounds like something the trump administration would advocate to treat covid. “paging Dr Kennedy! You’re wanted in the Oval Office, stat!”
(If the only defillerberating setting they use is 400 Watt-seconds, why are there other settings? WHOOMP!)
*That’s what my wife always calls it on Emergency!
You caught my IV reference!