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- Imminent_peril abstract "Imminent peril, or imminent danger, is the legal concept of unacceptable conditions urgently needing corrective action. The principle allows people to act instinctively, without concern for recrimination. The actions are exempt from ordinary standards of reasonable care when the action meets a sudden and urgent need. For example, a person performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on a patient in cardiac arrest need not fear if in so doing he or she breaks some of the patient's ribs. Because of the doctrine, the person will not be liable for the injuries, as the CPR was performed to meet an urgent need. Imminent peril is "certain danger, immediate, and impending; menacingly close at hand, and threatening." In many states in the USA, a mere necessity for quick action does not constitute an emergency within the doctrine of imminent peril, where the situation calling for the action is one which should reasonably have been anticipated and which the person whose action is called for should have been prepared to meet; the doctrine of imminent peril does not excuse one who has brought about the peril by her own negligence.".
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- Imminent_peril subject Category:Legal_defenses.
- Imminent_peril subject Category:Legal_doctrines_and_principles.
- Imminent_peril subject Category:Risk.
- Imminent_peril comment "Imminent peril, or imminent danger, is the legal concept of unacceptable conditions urgently needing corrective action. The principle allows people to act instinctively, without concern for recrimination. The actions are exempt from ordinary standards of reasonable care when the action meets a sudden and urgent need. For example, a person performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on a patient in cardiac arrest need not fear if in so doing he or she breaks some of the patient's ribs.".
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