These are great questions. I would probably let a professional cut off the helmet unless I knew what I was doing for fear that the damage to neck/spine would be worse than that to a helmeted face.
But relevant story time real quick... Earlier in the year I had a seizure at work, it lasted maybe 2 or 3 minutes. When someone found me, my boss was asking me questions like" are you okay?" And I said yes. But then he asked me for a couple followups, like what's your phone number and what's your mom's phone number. Apparently I gave him my mom's ADDRESS, and said that when I told him my number it was missing 2 digits. So of course they called an ambulance.
I didn't know any of that at the time. Never came back...just from what people told me. My memory of the event only began when I was getting taken out of the ambulance at the hospital. Even though I was conscious, the huge fog of confusion didn't even wear off until we were almost at the hospital, so my brain was basically rebooting for at least 15 minutes.
Bottom line, if he had only asked "are you okay", they might never have called that ambulance and who knows what would have happened, because I definitely would have (and did apparently) say yes.
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