If you are helping an injured person in a road accident, is it permitted to give them food or drink?

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As a general rule of first aid and road safety, food or drink must never be given to the victim of a traffic accident, not even water if they plead insistently for it. There are crucial medical reasons for this prohibition: on the one hand, the injured person may have a reduced level of consciousness or reduced swallowing reflexes, which would cause choking or pulmonary aspiration of liquids (bronchoaspiration) with a risk of asphyxia; on the other hand, if the victim needs emergency surgery under general anesthesia at the hospital, the stomach must remain completely empty to avoid vomiting and serious infections.

If you are helping an injured person in a road accident, is it permitted to give them food or drink?

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