As the article mentions, if the reason the heart stopped is because the person is terminally ill and the heart finally gives out, CPR is likely futile.
If the victim is otherwise healthy and the heart stopped because of drowning or electrocution or something like that, then CPR is a good idea.
Thank you for being one of the intelligent freepers that actually reads articles that are posted.
But if the patient wants all treatments and procedures done to keep them alive…….it really cost nothing but a few minutes to try.
So why not?
The longest I ever worked a patient was 40 minutes. About 10 of those minutes were in the Ambulance while on the way to the hospital.
30 minutes in the recuss room at Detroit Receiving Hospital.
Got him back once, but he died and didn’t come back again.
I was going to get paid whether I was standing around picking my nose or performing compressions or bagging him.
So why not?