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Edited by Bubble2Bubble, 20 February 2005 - 08:37 PM.
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Posted 18 February 2005 - 06:04 PM
In fact, a sobering reality from the American Heart Association is that if you have a sudden heart attack your odds of survival go down 10% for each minute that goes by from the event until ALCS (that would be "paramedics plus") arrive, even with prompt CPR!
Those odds are probably overstated to try to try to avoid alarming people; another study I saw a few years ago said that even if you have a sudden, no-warning heart attack in the ER of a hospital your odds of survival are only about 50%! There's no better place than the ER to be if that's gonna happen to you.....
Posted 18 February 2005 - 06:15 PM
Posted 18 February 2005 - 06:36 PM
Yep.In fact, a sobering reality from the American Heart Association is that if you have a sudden heart attack your odds of survival go down 10% for each minute that goes by from the event until ALCS (that would be "paramedics plus") arrive, even with prompt CPR!
Those odds are probably overstated to try to try to avoid alarming people; another study I saw a few years ago said that even if you have a sudden, no-warning heart attack in the ER of a hospital your odds of survival are only about 50%! There's no better place than the ER to be if that's gonna happen to you.....
As an aside...40% of the time the first warning of heart disease/failure is sudden death. Although we are talking about accident related CPR here...if you did have a sudden heart attack, 40% of the time that would have been your first warning sign AND you would die. Not good news for most of us who believe naively that we feel fine and we'll have some warning signs before anything like that would happen to us.
The good news is that other then accident related...all other occurances of heart attacks can be controlled by what you put in your mouth...or more accurately what you don't put there and eat!
Posted 18 February 2005 - 07:56 PM
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Posted 13 May 2005 - 09:12 AM
In fact, a new movement is to promote the Chest compressions to the exclusion of the ventilations, since many don't ventilate properly and just interrupt the compressions to do them... and minimize both's effectiveness. It will be interesting to see if that catches on. Many people I have taught can't do the procedure properly... but it is taught now so that people don't have "pressure to perform"... so to speak. When I took my first course 30 years ago, there was someone aggressively assuring we "got it" and did it right to get a cert. I remember more from that course than even the instructor trainer courses I've taken since... Of couse we learned infant/2 rescuer, and everything else back then. I encourage anyone taking such training to take it with much seriousness... and realize you may be able to save a loved one some day. It may seem overwhelming when you take the course, but repetition of practice and effort should make you confident and capable. It's more than just a card!!! It's saving lives.it's the compressions that matter most. Your body will retain some oxygen reserve but it won't help unless the blood is being circulated. Chest compressions without ventilations still circulates blood to the brain. Ventilations without compressions on the other hand will do nothing (in the absence of a pulse).
Posted 04 August 2005 - 08:43 AM
Posted 04 August 2005 - 08:52 AM
For us sports fans, the question would be, if we were to find Drew Rosenhaus face down in a pool, would we jump in to save him???When I took my CPR as part of my AOW, I was told by the EMT who taught the class to "just do it". He told me that even any CPR done is better than none and does help the chances of the victim surviving when the professional help arrives.
A case in point, there was a story about how Drew Rosenhaus, a sports agent who represents many NFL players, helped revived a 3-year-old boy who was face-down in a pool. While over 100 people were standing around doing nothing, he jumped in, got the boy out, and started CPR. By his own admission, he did not think he did it right but what he did was enough to help the boy until paramedics arrived.
I have yet to ever have to do this but I hope that I will know what to do should I ever find myself in the same situation.
Posted 04 August 2005 - 09:20 AM
Posted 04 August 2005 - 09:26 AM
For us sports fans, the question would be, if we were to find Drew Rosenhaus face down in a pool, would we jump in to save him???
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