I think alot depends on how and why it failed. Was it a medical issue someone was playing only becasue the other wanted and their head was not into it, was their an outside distrubance, technical difficulties ect.
in general when i have a session that fails or enters bad subspace. First thing i try to do is make sure my submissive/slave knows thaty it is ok i am not mad at them. Next I try to determine the casue of teh problem. (I mention some of this story in my post on pain). My wife and i were doing a sessdion a few weeks ago and it went South. One of the reasons is that the music she was using to focus quit on us. While the dungeon Master and some others tried to get it going again. She was haivng trouble keeiping head space. She was just entering it when the commotion started. As a result she tried to work through it but could not. When i saw she was having problemes we stopped before she ahd to safe word. Myself and several others spent at least a good half hour getting her back from the bad space. Cuddling blankets and fruit juice always good things. We then went to thje social area to relax, discuss things. I amde it clear though that before we elft we woulpd do another scene even if it was very light. Following the philosphy of if you fall off a horse get right back on. We watched a couple of other scenes talked relaxed. Then with the help of the host/DM we set up a different environemtn for ehr one where she could relax and feel safe in. We started wtih wax and went to knives and floggers. She ha da fantastic scene one fof the best for us both in a long time. Despite a few bruises and a couple of mild nicks from the knife she never even realized that it happened till the next day when shown. She had a wonderful time and was glad she got a chance to do a scene.
To answeer the question alot depends on circumstances. I ahve had sunbs who have hgad diabetic crashes in a scene. In those cases the play for the night was over period. Even though they claimed to ahve recovered seemed anda cted ok I did not wnat to risk them having another sugar attack. Alot of it is common sense and alot oof it is discussion what went wrong was it avoidable and doing your ebst to make sure the enxt time around things go better.
One last point. Sometime accidents happen i.e. subs gets cut with a whpi or a knife. Some dominants this throws for a loop and out of dominant space as they never wish to amrk or harm their sub or slave in that manner. My viewpoint is accidents happen sooner or alter we all cut or selves or someone else. As long as it does not casue the subissive permant harm or casues her to safe word. I feel there is no reason to fully stop the scene. yhes apply firstaid. But if they are readyt to go keep on moving on maybe scale back a little b ut that helps you restore your confidence.
Hope my viepwoint helps some. If you ened any more infoor have mroe questions feel free to contact me at master_kyrk1@yahoo.com
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