A sad deterioration continues.
Surely some day that excuse all card is going to wear out? Some day?
An adult gets the basics in minutes, and while they may not do it "perfectly", it can still make the difference between life and death. These guys just didn't want to do it...or they believed the guy was injured in a way that CPR wouldn't have done any good.
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The Red Cross doesn’t give an exam. You show the instructor what you have been taught to pass the class.
You are given an example of a lifeless person and go from there.
This guy is the ultimate on weak.
I wasn’t there and I am not a doctor. I have given CPR to a gun shot wound victim (head shot, suicide) and I can tell you it is one of the most harrowing things I’ve ever done. You are delivering compressions, and with each one more gray matter is exiting the head wound. Felt like I was making it worse, but had to continue until the Paramedics arrived.
On top of all of that we worked the same precinct.
These guys should have been assigned to partner with an older, seasoned veteran Officer.
You have be pretty stupid to fail CPR training. It’s a very EASY course especially since they simplified it.
“Jurors learned Thursday that nothing could have saved unarmed Akai Gurley from the bullet that ricocheted off a stairwell wall and pierced his heart, killing him in minutes.”
First aid wouldn’t have saved this person.
Somebody needed help to pass a CPR test?! They’ve got bigger problems than a training deficiency
This is lke many of us in Viet Nam who were never taught how to put a bullet or magazine in a rifle and never taught how to shoot a rifle. But we had the MOS of rifleman.
Ha..reminds me of the ambulance guys in UK that responded to a heart attack victim.
They went into his apartment...commented on the rubbish lying around ...and drunk his beer from the frig.....problem was that the heart attack victim passed out the floor....but the phone was hanging and recorded the conversation...including.."I guess it's time to transport him to the morgue."
CPR isnt going to save someone with a bleeding heart gunshot wound.
They are going to bleed out in a couple minutes.
Surprised this line of questioning was even allowed by the lawyers.
I would train guys straight from the production line, half of them had trouble getting a dozen bars in a box and none of them flunked.
It is mostly common sense and not panicking.