rang a bell?
Incredible. Hats off to them for not giving up. I suspect many supposedly dead people could be saved if enough effort was made to save them.
A teenager nearly dying from a cardiac arrest. This is not normal.
WOW,
I took a CPR/EAD certificate renewal class last month. This one is really good in that we got a lot of practice in one, two, and three-person CPR (three being the best as one person does the chest compressions, one breathes, and one rests and times.)
I lift weights and get a couple of hours of decent cardio a week, and until recent sciatica ran a bit. And at TWO minutes of 30/2 (30 seconds of chest compressions, two breaths, repeat) I was wiped. Doing them properly is 75% the effort of pushups. I can’t imagine someone being able to do 30/2 for more than 5-6 minutes unless they are in ironman level shape.
Keep applying CPR. This is especially true if a young person is very cold. It cannot hurt to keep trying.
I remember when we had to update our CPR certificate every so often. One time the ‘trainer’ was a real stickler for following the rules and using the ‘appropriate’ language, phraseology. When approaching someone who IS NOT BREATHING, she insisted upon stating “I’ve been trained and I’m here to help you.”. We used one of those manikins. So, when it was my turn to demonstrate that I had learned it, I approached the manikin and stated “hello, I’m breathing and your not.” The trainer was not amused, but my supervisor could not stop laughing.
Sounds like he got the Damar Hamlin treatment.
PTL that this young man is alive!!
Also,
Never Give Up, Never Surrender!
That’s amazing.
Hope he does great things with his life.
(Happy ending that had Vivasepulature ping potential!)