Originally Posted by
ani90
... Sometimes that the advice could be questionable like once they were telling me to give strong antiplatelet (blood thinning) medication for a passenger having a neurological event in which my clinical diagnosis was a possible bleed in the brain (and a blood thinner would have made it worse)....!
Not being a doctor, but some personal experience, this seems like it might be a common issue with first responders. Older person collapses and hit his head. Suspect an MI so wants to give blood thinners. But he hit his head so there might be bleeding. This happened to my father, he got blood thinners (even after being informed that he was already on plavix+asprin but first responder didnt know what that was), ended up being a very significant bleed in the brain with no heart issue. Did it make things significantly worse? who knows.