Posted on 10/14/2009 7:35:03 AM PDT by Federalist Patriot
So I can do it with my foot without putting my beer or cigarette down?
LOL! I’m not sure Dr. Gupta would advocate that!
If you’re only doing chest compressions, how is new oxygen being introduced into the body. Me thinks respitory arrest is seperate from cardiac arrest.
Matthew can give me mouth-to-mouth, I don’t mind ; )
I hope you’re female.....
The article stated there is already a 8 minute reserve of oxygen in the blood. The important thing is to get the heart started and the blood moving. Once the heart restarts, they will breath on their own.
The odds of bringing someone back with compression CPR even when done absolutely properly are 1% or so at best. Its better than nothing, but don’t dillude yourself into thinking its a high probability.
Also, if you are doing it on an adult and you don’t hear their ribs cracking under your compressions, you aren’t putting enough pressure in your compressions to even have a chance of stimulating bloodflow.
See post 8... emergency CPR is better than nothing, but don’t dillude yourself on its success rate.
Of course...not sure if he’d want to perform CPR on a Grandma though, LOL!
I didn’t watch the video but if Matthew is shirtless i will seriously consider it.
What, the Obamacare way? If someone is over 65, tape their mouths shut and put a pallet of bricks on their chest?
I know that you put compression directly on the sternum, but do you by any chance know what to do if the patient has had surgery on the sternum? My hubby had a triple bypass awhile back and is still having issues...although, he recently passed a stress test...but it just scares me to death. I don’t know whether I’d be helping or harming him by doing the compressions. We do keep nitrate on hand.
bttt
You left out grab his wallet for the estate tax before their family gets it.
To my knowledge you don’t change how you perform CPR if you are doing it right, you are going to hurt him, its just that simple. Compressions done properly are going to break and crack ribs.
Best advice I would say is invest in a portable AED if you are that worried and keep it in your car with your first aid kit. Yes, its always possible you won’t be near your car when you need it, but still. Standard CPR has a reported is a 5-10% success rate, but honestly I think the rate is far below that. AED’s have a much higher success rate.
The important thing if you are going to do CPR is to make sure you are actually compressing the heart muscle, and that takes some serious effort. Don’t stop or hesitate because you are afraid to hurt your husband, its better he live and have to deal with healing rib fractures, than you not applying enough pressure and not stimulating blood flow.
Here is a quote from an article about the 2006 updates to CRP:
1. Effective Chest Compressions
Effective chest compressions improve blood flow, which increases the chance of survival. The new guidelines encourage rescuers to “push hard and push fast” at a rate of about 100 compressions per minute for all victims except newborns, without interruption. The rescuer should allow the chest to recoil after each compression.
Studies of actual resuscitation show that half of chest compressions given by professional rescuers are too shallow and that the compressions are interrupted too often. The new guidelines strongly emphasize the importance of high-quality chest compressions during CPR.
in theory, the compression and relaxation of the chest cavity also contracts and expands the lungs, exchanging air.
How about nude, playing bongo drums, smoking dope in his house and getting caught by the Austin PD....
you lost me at “nude”. Couldn’t get passed that. That’s quite a bit of detail. Did that really happen?
Yep.
Matthew McConaughey was arrested by Austin, Texas police in October 1999 and charged with possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia after a neighbor ...
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/mugshots/mcconaugheymug1.html
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