Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Question re defibrillator

[Mabel Liang (mabel]

Hi! 

Here at Cornerstone Cohousing in Cambridge, MA, we have 2 defibrillators
- one for each of our two apartment buildings.  One of those buildings
contains what we call our common ouse, the other building also contains
common space. 

I can't really answer any of your other questions, so I've bcc'd our
resident nurse practitioner, who was the driving force behind the
proposal to obtain these.  We did have training at a GM.  I'll say that
I assume that Good Samaritan laws cover the liability issue, and that we
wouldn't apply a defibrillator to someone with a DNR order.  Of course
that means that we need to know about the order. 

Hope that helps! 

-- Mabel :-)

mabel [at] twomeeps.com
Mabel Liang
Software Engineer turned Gardener 

On 2018-06-22 10:08, Karolyn/Richard Mangeot wrote:

> We have a proposal to buy a fully automatic defibrillator Zoll AED Plus for
> our common house.  Questions:  
> 1.  Does any community currently have a defibrillator?  
> 2.  Are there liability insurance issues we need to consider?  
> 3.  How do you deal with people who have a Do Not Resuscitate order?
> 4.  Anything else we should know?
> Thanks!
> Karolyn Mangeot
> Elderberry Cohousing
> 
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