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To: toldyou

I would have used BREATHS only with no chest compressions. I would be afraid of poking a broken rib through the lungs. There may well have been a “sucking chest wound” as others stated before me.
I would have either had someone else try to cover the chest wound as I gave breaths, or would have tried to do so myself.
YES, I have given full CPR twice, with no equipment, by myself. You toss out the “textbook” in trauma cases, each case is different.


547 posted on 07/05/2013 7:53:37 AM PDT by Kansas58
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To: Kansas58

Laymen don’t do breaths anymore. You do compression and wait for the EMT’s.


554 posted on 07/05/2013 7:55:22 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Obama: What did I not know and when did I not know it?)
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To: Kansas58

I would not have done breaths.

Some obvious thug on the ground and you have no idea what diseases and other such buggy-boos are in his mouth/system.

Yuck.


581 posted on 07/05/2013 8:00:55 AM PDT by Hulka
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