Posted on 02/12/2010 5:03:17 PM PST by Man50D
This is an excellent video regarding an updated and more effective version of CPR that doesn't require blowing in someone's mouth. Pass it on.
Especially when you consider that when you start CPR the stranger is already dead.
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email to everyone you know - friends and family - the life saved may be your own
thanks Man - :)
aaaarrrrrggggggg! barf!
No pulse..not breathing...what else can you call it?
LOL..my first wife!
One day we were stopped in traffic and a bum/street person, what ever you want to call them, had passed out in the gutter. I had just taken the CPR course and I was contemplating my new found skill.......when the ambulance arrived. Wow! Saved! (I mean me LOL!)
You missed a free contact high. And probably lice, too.
good post. thanks
Remember the Cambridge policeman who Obama said “acted stupidly” - he gave mouth to mouth to Reggie Lewis the Celtics player who collapsed during practice. I know I’d have a hard time doing mouth to mouth on a stranger. brrr...
I’ve been trained and wouldn’t have figured that to be safe and healthy for the victim at the time of training. Since it’s coming from the Mayo Clinic though, they certainly do have some clout behind them.
I figure the reason for mouth-to-mouth was to continue to put air into the lungs, and keep whatever amount of oxygen that's in your exhaled breath flowing throughout the victim's blood.
This is an excellent video regarding an updated and more effective version of CPR that doesn't require blowing in someone's mouth. Pass it on.
Continuous Chest Compression CPR - Mayo Clinic Presentation (video runs 2:19 minutes)
Just did so, including the business my wife used to work for.
Thanks, Man50D- I was taught to old stuff long ago- this looks better.
I had heard about changes to CPR guidelines several years ago, mainly that paramedics were doing the new method, and that CPR classes had changed. I had also heard about the faster, harder compressions.
This video explains why they made the change. I had heard there was enough oxygen in the blood, I had not realized the issue with breaking to do mouth to mouth caused all of the compression work to be lost.
Somebody suggested if you are doing compressions like this, you are probably aspirating the lungs. I suspect that is true, especially with 2-inch compressions. That should force a lot of air out of the lungs, and naturally draw some in. How much oxygen in in an exhaled breath, provided a few times a minute, compared to 100 shallow passive breaths of ambient air caused by this method? It is probably a wash.
Thanks for posting this incredible link.
This is the new gold standard for CPR. It is safe for the person receiving the new CPR and safe//simple/easy for those giving it as there is no mouth to mouth action needed.
I have sent this link to our friends and neighbors.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5huVSebZpM
Thanks for the ping!
i was wondering when someone was going to post another continuous chest compression thread lol kthxbai
Great post. I learned something and it could save a life.
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