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This also means that if you are in, say, a wilderness survival situation where help is not coming, CPR will not save a life, but it is still recommended that yo
by Cushman 14y ago
This also means that if you are in, say, a wilderness survival situation where help is not coming, CPR will not save a life, but it is still recommended that you perform it-- the emotional impact of just watching somebody die will be dangerous to the survivors.
- vacri 14y agoA 2% chance of recovery is better than a 0.01% chance of recovery anyway.
- XorNot 14y agoMy parents are GPs. They somewhat recently had an old man have a heartattack in their waiting room, and basically had to give him CPR + rescue breaths (via one of those squeeze bottle ventilators) for about 10 minutes before the ambulance arrived. The hell of it was, it did work. The guy kept waking up from it while they were doing it, being very grumpy that people were pressing on his chest, and the moment they stopped he'd go unconscious again. Continued through the normal CPR and the ambulance's CPR apparently. Unfortunately in the end he didn't make it (heart just would not restart fully).