Posted on 11/02/2011 7:38:53 PM PDT by Razzz42
The rules of how to treat cardiac arrest are being re-written at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. Technology, new drug treatments, conventional CPR and the use of hypothermia are now being coordinated with great affect - in one case reviving a man who'd been clinically dead for more than an hour. (Video and transcript available at link)
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
Pounding on his chest.
That’s some inaccurate reporting.
You must have friends in high places.
Glad you stayed with us.
I’ve been trying to think of uses for the Pocket Ventilators I’d been packin around. Put little squeekers in and I can sell them as pocket musical instruments or dog squeeky toys.
Yes, because closed chest massage also causes the lungs to move, and air is exchanged. We live on room air which is 21% oxygen. Expired breath as in mouth to mouth may have as little as 18% oxygen. Enough air is maintained to survive. It is the down time that counts — time to effective CPR. if short, and with carbon dioxide measurement, we can quantify how well we are doing with the CPR and therefore if the brain is indeed getting oxygen. As an anesthesiologist I continually monitor carbon dioxide to make sure i am actually getting enough oxygen to the patient to make sure he can stay alive. If i have normal amounts of expired carbon dioxide, i know that physiologically my patient is doing fine.
From your about page it sounds like you were well worth
saving. I am trained as a rescue diver and it is amazing how
long after someone has flatlined that they can be revived.
Ping
I’ve always wondered about mouth to mouth. When you breath out, you’re breathing out carbon dioxide, not oxygen.
and by switching back and forth from compressions to mouth to mouth - you interrupt the crucial steady beat that the heart needs.
I’ve emailed this to all my family - including grandkids as it may be THEM that be confronted with an emergency at home.
Well, fellow freeper, we’re mighty glad you made it. Freerepublic is ‘The Force’.
I will try to be nicer to you. ;>)
Sounds like you weren’t done with what God wanted you to do yet.
Best of luck....
“... with great affect”?
Or maybe they mean “with great effect”?
Enough air migrates into the lungs on its own to keep blood oxygen at a survivable level?
It does not migrate. The rapid chest compressions will cause air to go out of the lungs during the compression and into the lungs after the compression.
Get rid of your corded phones. They are a pain for lots of reasons. With either a cordless or cell phone pushing 9-1-1 and laying it next to you on the floor speaker phone on takes about a couple of seconds.
My phones are all cordless. I wasn’t sure it could pick up from the floor. AFAIK, there isn’t a speaker phone function on them. Perhaps I should look for phones that have that function and replace mine.
Wow, I’m sure glad that you’re still hear with us.
Here’s advice from the American Heart Association:
Untrained. If you’re not trained in CPR, then provide hands-only CPR. That means uninterrupted chest compressions of about 100 a minute until paramedics arrive (described in more detail below). You don’t need to try rescue breathing.
Trained, and ready to go. If you’re well trained and confident in your ability, begin with chest compressions instead of first checking the airway and doing rescue breathing. Start CPR with 30 chest compressions before checking the airway and giving rescue breaths.
Trained, but rusty. If you’ve previously received CPR training but you’re not confident in your abilities, then just do chest compressions at a rate of about 100 a minute. (Details described below.)
The above advice applies to adults, children and infants needing CPR, but not newborns.
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/first-aid-cpr/FA00061
I used to have no trouble with grammar rules when I was younger, but now I remember the rules but forget how to apply them.
Affect from the latin is make or do- to, and effect is make or do -from, or bring about.
“Seventy five percent of Americans don’t have a pulse anyway.
They’re heartless. “
Yeah, but they are brainless too, so they don’t really need a pulse anyways.
I agree Roger white should get a Nobel prize, and he’s such a nice guy. Are you old enough to remember the reign of Tinker at St. Mary’s?
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