QUESTION
Liability on tactical medicine training dvd
Asked on Mar 01st, 2013 on Business Law - Virginia
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I am a Navy SEAL medic and wish to make a DVD on tactical medical interventions any person can do that could potentially save lives. These would involve procedures such as placing tourniquets, obtaining non surgical airways, and how to properly assess / stabilize a patient in order to get them to a higher level of care. My question is, if someone were to say place a tourniquet wrong and kill someone, how do I protect myself from not being legally responsible for their mistake.
1 ANSWER
While your plan is admirable, liability-wise you are out of your mind. Once the DVD is out there, you can't control who gets it and while a disclaimer might help, you can't prevent people from suing you if something goes wrong. Were I in your shoes, I would try to find a company involved in first aid that might want to partner and release the dvd in their name. Any time you are talking medical treatment, there are significant risks, more than I would feel were worth the benefit. Perhaps the Navy would be interested in making and distributing such a dvd...
God bless you for your service!
Answered on Mar 01st, 2013 at 3:43 PM