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Originally Posted by Kevlar281
It’s amazing how many people think that if someone’s heart stops, they stop breathing or both they will be revived with CPR or an AED.
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I hugely agree with this, it's actually the first thing I thought of when I read this. CPR is hardly ever effective, AED only marginally more so. I've been trained that the breathing portion of CPR is of minimal value, that if you cannot come to terms with putting your mouth over a stranger's mouth that the chest compressions alone will be almost the same as compressions with breaths.
Current CPR training is 30 chest compressions to 2 rescue breaths, but on TV it's maybe 5 to 5.
And of course, anyone whose heart stops, no matter for how long, seems to live on TV.
I lost a close family member a bit over a year ago after his heart stopped. He was finally revived, but it was too late, his brain was gone. Of course a couple days later I saw someone on TV fully recover after an almost identical situation. It just doesn't work that way in real life.
