Articles tagged with: AED
Featured, Risk Management »
By Doyice Cotten
If your school or business is debating whether or not to purchase an AED (Automated External Defibrillator), read the following story that appeared on University of Michigan director of athletics Dave Brandon’s blog, Go Blue.
On Wednesday, April 27, at our Wilpon Softball Complex, quick thinking, training and the resolve to win paid off big time. Not on the field but in the team lounge as the Wolverine softball coaches literally saved the life of a recruit’s father.
The softball team had just finished their practice session on the …
Risk Management »
This article by Doyice Cotten originally appeared in Fitness Management, but is as timely today as ever. Health, fitness, and recreation providers should have a plan in place for dealing with heart attacks and other serious incidents. Failure to do so can leave the provider liable.
Jerry Atcovitz suffered a heart attack while playing tennis at Gulph Mills Tennis Club in Pennsylvania. He later filed suit against the club claiming that damage to his heart could have been mitigated if the club had utilized an automated external …
Other Voices, Risk Management »
by David L. Herbert,, Esq., Senior Partner, David L. Herbert & Associates, LLC., Canton, Ohio.
This article by David Herbert was originally published in The Exercise Standards and Malpractice Reporter in January, 2010. He examines a case in which the health club had an AED and personnel trained to use it, but failed to do so.
In a recent and interesting case from New York, Digiulio v. New York Health & Racquet Club, et al., No. 2009-29454, Supreme Court, New York County, October 13, 2009, the court reported the following …
Risk Management »
This is the fourth of a 5-part series of ways to reduce the risk of a lawsuit. This part focuses on guidelines dealing with emergency situations.
12. Reacting to a Crisis
A crisis is a major, unpredictable event that endangers property and/or lives and threatens to seriously harm an organization. Examples of crises in a health club might be a fire, tornado, roof collapse, explosion, terrorist situation, heart attack, or catastrophic accident. Two ways in which a crisis is distinguished from a mere accident is 1) the likelihood of significant …
