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What use is this information though to someone performing CPR? It’s important in the sense that maybe better techniques can be developed but if I need CPR it do
by basisword 3y ago
What use is this information though to someone performing CPR? It’s important in the sense that maybe better techniques can be developed but if I need CPR it doesn’t matter one bit if the person doing it knows it’s success rate. In fact probably better they don’t know. If they know the odds are low perhaps they’ll give up too soon.
- WJW 3y agoI could see an argument that knowing the statistics could help the CPR-giver in the aftermath. After all the patient is very likely to die and if the CPR-giver was under the impression that it is likely to work, then they may feel a lot of unwarranted guilt.
- dragonwriter 3y ago> What use is this information though to someone performing CPR? Possibly quite important to their psychological condition afterwards, given what the very low effectiveness means.
- Sohcahtoa82 3y agoTo absolve themselves of guilt and self-doubt. Someone who doesn't know that CPR has a very low success rate might perform CPR on someone that ends up not surviving and feeling guilty and full of self-doubt, thinking they performed CPR incorrectly.
- lazyasciiart 3y agoThere was a Reddit thread from someone who had spent years feeling that exact guilt for not saving her grandma https://www.reddit.com/r/BestofRedditorUpdates/comments/102kp42/when_i_was_24_we_were_celebrating_christmas_my/ https://www.reddit.com/r/BestofRedditorUpdates/comments/102k...