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The Dark Side of CPR: Why Doctors Say That it Could Do More Harm Than Good
New York Post ^ | May 30, 2023 | Ben Cost

Posted on 05/30/2023 1:54:16 PM PDT by nickcarraway

The world’s most famous life-saving rescue technique could be worse than death in many cases, according to a new report.

Administering CPR — or cardiopulmonary resuscitation — to a cardiac arrest sufferer might seem like a no-brainer. However, mouth-to-mouth resuscitation could paradoxically cause more harm than good, according to a disturbing new NPR investigation.

“The bad experiences far outnumber the good ones, unfortunately,” Holland Kaplan, a physician and bioethicist, told the outlet about the so-called dark side of CPR. Not only is this revival method not as successful as portrayed on countless televised medical dramas — but it can leave many patients with lasting physical and cognitive impairments.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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To: nickcarraway
"The bad experiences far outnumber the good ones"

????????

Hmmmm....Let's see. Doing nothing could be a very, very bad experience for the families and friends of the person not breathing.

I remember a CPR training where the trainer was a real stickler for exact phraseology. There was a life-size manikin, and the trainer insisted we use this language upon assisting the person not breathing: "Hello, I've been trained and I'm here to help you." When it was my turn to demonstrate what I had learned, I approached the manikin and stated: "Hi, I'm breathing and you're not." Even my boss laughed at that one. The trainer, not so much.

21 posted on 05/30/2023 2:28:57 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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To: Boogieman
Can’t Elon Musk invent like a wearable difibrilator vest?

There is such a thing and it's called a Life Vest.

I had to wear one from this past November into January when I was hospitalized with AFIB and Cardio Myopathy......

After my heart function increased from 30% to over 50%, I didn't have to wear it any more.......

22 posted on 05/30/2023 2:30:30 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: Hot Tabasco

Well, I’m sad I can’t patent it and clean up, but I’m glad to hear you’re doing better.


23 posted on 05/30/2023 2:31:48 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: nickcarraway
So, you think doctors actually attribute such things to the vaccine?

Some, but it's really the lawyers who do. They prefer those who took the Jim Jones Jab be dead rather than alive and suing for damages. The more that live with the exact same damage, the easier it becomes for the juries to determine that yes, the Jim Jones Jab caused heart problems.

...and that the fraudulent application for the "vaccine" negates the immunity from lawsuits.

24 posted on 05/30/2023 2:34:27 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: Boogieman
Thank you

FWIW, it was a real pain in the ass to wear since the vest was connected to a box you had to carry with you on your waist.......

I was supposed to wear it at night but I never did.........

25 posted on 05/30/2023 2:35:33 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: T.B. Yoits
They prefer those who took the Jim Jones Jab be dead rather than alive and suing for damages.

In what country? In the U.S., you can't sue for damages caused by a vaccine. You can only go to the government agency for that, and it's hard to get money out of them.

26 posted on 05/30/2023 2:36:05 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

There’s a lot of unpleasant side effects, assuming you survive. A doctor friend of mine had DNR tattooed on his chest. He’s weighed both sides and made his choice.


27 posted on 05/30/2023 2:41:27 PM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: nickcarraway

CPR doesn’t cause brain damage.

Prolonged cerebral hypoxia causes brain damage, and CPR circulation is nothing like natural circulation, or people would wake up during compressions.

Now let us talk about defibrillation and flat lines.


28 posted on 05/30/2023 2:43:42 PM PDT by heartwood (Someone has to play devil's advocate.)
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To: discostu

I don’t know if a tattoo is legally binding. But if you have a DNR, there can be something very minor, and they can put you down.


29 posted on 05/30/2023 2:44:06 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

A great secret is that chest compression is far more useful, as there is likely still a lot of oxygen in the blood, it just needs to be moved around.


30 posted on 05/30/2023 2:47:46 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("All he had was a handgun. Why did you think that was a threat?" --Rittenhouse Prosecutor)
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To: nickcarraway
In the U.S., you can't sue for damages caused by a vaccine. You can only go to the government agency for that, and it's hard to get money out of them.

Except for fraud which nullifies the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA).

31 posted on 05/30/2023 2:48:15 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: nickcarraway

He’s also done all the living will paperwork. But as he said, EMTs never see paperwork, they see your chest. Anything that’s got you needing resuscitation isn’t minor. Yeah if they bring you back maybe it wasn’t a big deal. Unless you got brain damage before they brought you back. I’m not saying everybody should take his path, I certainly haven’t, just saying he knows the math and made his call.


32 posted on 05/30/2023 2:50:07 PM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: nickcarraway

If they’re done with proper vigor, chest compressions can break ribs, especially in the elderly or anyone affected with osteoporosis.


33 posted on 05/30/2023 2:58:57 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: T.B. Yoits

You’re really out of your mind if that is what you believe. Bystander CPR usually is a poor outcome because the arrest to CPR initiation is often a couple minutes and most people have no idea how to give effective CPR. If you do CPR correctly it is almost impossible to last longer that two or three minutes. Every one minute in an arrest that it takes to gain ROSC increases death rate by 10%. And if adequate oxygen not provided a patient may have a horrendous HIE which is particularly horrifying.

By the way we have known this long before Covid.


34 posted on 05/30/2023 3:11:46 PM PDT by gas_dr (Conditions of Socratic debate: Intelligence, Candor, and Good Will)
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To: Boogieman

It’s called a life vest and already exists.


35 posted on 05/30/2023 3:13:00 PM PDT by gas_dr (Conditions of Socratic debate: Intelligence, Candor, and Good Will)
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To: T.B. Yoits

“Some, but it’s really the lawyers who do. They prefer those who took the Jim Jones Jab be dead rather than alive and suing for damages.”

Plaintiff attorneys vigorously disagree.


36 posted on 05/30/2023 3:16:42 PM PDT by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
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To: nickcarraway

There is an extremely low chance of saving anyone with CPR according to drs - just went thru this with my elderly parents when they walk them thru their desires vis-a-vis what they want to happen and not happen in case in the ambulance shows up in an emergency - I was surprised the dr said it worked in so few cases, had always assumed the survival rate was much higher than single digits - and my daughter (works in a nursing home) watched a ~225lb burly paramedic performing cpr on a 101 year old woman who probably weighed 85lbs - literally broke almost every one of her ribs, and then she died anyway - lesson: let people know what you want to happen before its to late to make a decision.


37 posted on 05/30/2023 3:36:43 PM PDT by qwerty1234
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To: gas_dr

I was really lucky - at the age of 47, had heart attack while on a treadmill test. Coded twice in the ambulance. Ever thankful to the EMTs who defibbed me. That was in 1992. Actually, it wasn’t “luck” - I figure the good Lord still had work for me here, and I’ve tried to live the life that He gave me doing what He would have me do.


38 posted on 05/30/2023 3:40:22 PM PDT by Inspectorette
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To: AndyJackson

Do we trust the medical industry? Does this align with the death cult that is today’s leftists? Do they want to reduce the population?

So yes, let them die apparently.


39 posted on 05/30/2023 3:46:42 PM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: BipolarBob

I cracked my share of ribs back in the 70’s doing CPR its just part of it


40 posted on 05/30/2023 4:11:41 PM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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