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Generally CPR is performed when there is no pulse or breathing as a last ditch effort to keep a brain viable until a full medical team can do their work. In ot
by dghlsakjg 3y ago
Generally CPR is performed when there is no pulse or breathing as a last ditch effort to keep a brain viable until a full medical team can do their work.
In other words CPR is performed on people who show no signs of life/are already dead.
The survival rate for the control group is 0, so it is kind of a miracle that anyone survives.
- brianwawok 3y agoIt’s not that simple. People who do not get CPR live. Others who get CPR didn’t need it. Control group of 0 is missing the complexities of real life.
- dreamcompiler 3y agoIt is that simple. CPR -- if done properly -- is only done on dead people. Dead people don't come back on their own. And if CPR is done on somebody who "doesn't need it" then by definition it was done wrong, because they weren't dead in the first place.
- akvadrako 3y agoIt will be done wrong, so you have to take that into account.
- shkkmo 3y agoThis is wrong, CPR almost never brings people back. What CPR does is provide minimal bloodflow and oxygenation until electricity can be used to get the heart beating properly again. By doing this, you extend the window during which an AED (or other defibrilator) can be used successfully and hopefully reduce brain damage in the event of that success. Indeed, if you have an AED, delaying its use to provide CPR is bad.