CPR so you think you are doing it right !

[MASS-Diver]

Interesting study. I've been present at number of codes in hosptial settings and I must say that overall I have not be impressed with the quality of the CPR I've seen. IMO, you have to be in pretty shape to carry out effective CPR - espically on big, fat people and many docs aren't up to the task.

BTW, I though that one evaluated the effectivness of of chest compression by papating the femoral artery? Everytime I've seen CPR there was always a resident doing that.

 

[Tom Smedley]

Hey gang - all this is a bunch of doo-doo. The only correct CPR is that which is being presently administered. You won't beliveve the number of folks who won't intervene because they fear doing it wrong.

I only have one request....

If I am without pulse in your presence and you can't remember 15 to 2 or 5 to 1 - please pull out your cell phone - dial 911 or whatever the local emergency number is and administer chest compressions and breaths to me in the order and ratio that you can remember.

I have seen folks in cardiac arrest in a room full of Harvard trained Cardiologists with all the equipment and drugs that money can buy and they didn't make it. I have also seen folks in the forest where we had to borrow a four wheel drive vehicle to get them out and they made it.

Your number is not up until it is up. But when it is it is.

Forget DIR - do the very best you can with what you've got and nobody can expect more.

Should I intervene or should I not? - you can't win the lottery if you don't buy a ticket.

 

[Wildcard]

Femoral is , well, not something we need to be explaining to the general public. "Mommy, why is that mans hand in grannys crotch?" Corotid pulse is much easer outside the hospital setting. Fem = 60+ Sys and cor = 50+ sys. In a code, if there is a pulse it's working.

 

[firemedic296]

what did i miss reading this, were did the femoral artery concern come in. most everybody in this thread is right. like someone said before the only wrong cpr is one not administered, but you can get a bp back after cracking a few ribs, ain't that right skeet!

 

[firemedic296]

sorry about that guys, i missed the post by mass diver about the femoral pulse, and he must be watching too much tv because i have never seen a docter do chest compressions, the medics working their @## off on the way in are the ones that work'em till the end.

 

[ShakaZulu]

Hey gang - all this is a bunch of doo-doo. The only correct CPR is that which is being presently administered. You won't beliveve the number of folks who won't intervene because they fear doing it wrong.

I only have one request....

If I am without pulse in your presence and you can't remember 15 to 2 or 5 to 1 - please pull out your cell phone - dial 911 or whatever the local emergency number is and administer chest compressions and breaths to me in the order and ratio that you can remember.

I have seen folks in cardiac arrest in a room full of Harvard trained Cardiologists with all the equipment and drugs that money can buy and they didn't make it. I have also seen folks in the forest where we had to borrow a four wheel drive vehicle to get them out and they made it.

Your number is not up until it is up. But when it is it is.

Forget DIR - do the very best you can with what you've got and nobody can expect more.

Should I intervene or should I not? - you can't win the lottery if you don't buy a ticket.

Agreed............what is this going on in this thread. People bragging about what age they started CPR. Whoopie.........

 

[Wildcard]

Docs like medics are not supposed to be the ones doing the work but the ones directing the band. Real life dictates otherwise. Only 3 people in the ER? Docs jump right in, most of the time. One medic and 12 vollies? Medic directs. One medic and one EMT? We work our frikkin arses off.

 

[Snowbear]

I'll never forget the one where the CPR was so effective the guy wouldn't let me intubate him.... he kept biting down on the laryngoscope blade :11:

That was my first ever actual, real, walked out of the hospital to resume his life after being dead, bonafide save....

 

[Wildcard]

Agreed............what is this going on in this thread. People bragging about what age they started CPR. Whoopie.........

Some people spend there lives helping people they don't even know, and then there is you. All bow to the "rescue diver"....Im so glad you "agree". What exactly do you agree with and what background do you have to say anything?

 

[Wildcard]

I'll never forget the one where the CPR was so effective the guy wouldn't let me intubate him.... he kept biting down on the laryngoscope blade :11:

That was my first ever actual, real, walked out of the hospital to resume his life after being dead, bonafide save....

They don't happen often. I rember one nightmarish week in Sacramento, 110 plus every day for a week. Every one was at the river. Four drownings in one wek. Pulled a gal out, after dive rescue showed up, out of the river just a few feet from where she walked in (if I had only known she was still right there) two compressions ( this was documented on the monitor) and she resumed NSR with pulses and a great BP! Brain was long gone though.....20 years in EMS and I can claim maybe 10? Dead when I got there and still alive a year later.