To: Federalist Patriot
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.
To: goseminoles
If you’re only doing chest compressions, how is new oxygen being introduced into the body.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.
7 posted on
10/14/2009 7:46:30 AM PDT by
Ditto
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To: goseminoles
in theory, the compression and relaxation of the chest cavity also contracts and expands the lungs, exchanging air.
17 posted on
10/14/2009 8:08:23 AM PDT by
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