If a person stops breathing and is receiving pulmonary resuscitation would it be better to administer pure...?

Question

oxygen or a mixture of oxygen and carbon dioxide? Why?

Answer 1

It depends on where CPR take place.
If it is happening outside of hospital, it's impossible to get 100% oxygen.
And if a person breathes 100% oxygen for long time,it can damage your body.
And under some situations, you need to give low oxygen concentration to keep patient alive, e.g., in some chronic obstructive pulmonary disease(COPD) patients., high concentratin oxygen can kill them.
{Carbon dioxide in the air can help to stimulate the respiratory center of the brain (which is life saving for some COPD patients). Because they have low blood oxygen for long term,so their respiratory control center in the brain no longer react (to stimulate breathing) to low blood oxygen. Only increase in the blood carbondioxide can stimulate their respiratory control center.}
So,100% oxygen is not the best for all.

Answer 2

It is truly hard to give somebody 100 percent oxygen during resuscitation. You would need a rebreather on the bag, and running Oxygen at 12 to 14 liters per minute. It would be ideal to get as much oxygen on board, and as quickly as possible. When you have an insult in your respiratory system, there may be other issues present, a collapsed lung, an aspiration, a partially blocked airway, etc. So, get as much in as can, without compromising your patient. The air we breathe around us daily is right around 20 percent oxygen. To give someone Carbon Dioxide would be displacing the much needed oxygen! In giving somebody mouth to mouth, the oxygen passed to the patient is diminished, as your intake breath is depeleted of Oxygen by your system. If you go into a hospital, you will see little green valves on the wall. The patients use these that are respiratory compromised. So, there you have it, OXYGEN.

Answer 3

You CANNOT give a human 100% pure oxygen because it is NOT good for the human body and you need more of a mixture than oxygen and carbon dioxide since the air is made of more elements. you have to give them oxygen through CPR because you have to make sure they are receiving a good supply of oxygen and make sure that blood is pumping to the heart by checking the carotid pulse.

Answer 4

Most of the time when someone is giving CPR they do not have pure oxygen available to them. You use your own breath to help them breathe and keep oxygen going to all the vital organs until help arrives to take over. Same goes for someone who is just not breathing on their own but has a heart beat you breathe for them.

Answer 5

Pure Oxygen because when you arent breathing the oxygen level in your red blood cells drops drastically = not good.

Answer 6

oxygen i think because you want them to get the most they can
because if they are getting cpr then they need the oxygen

Answer 7

that's greater proper to do the chest compressions without struggling with in any respect. that's the recent theory in cpr and has shown a greater robust effectual consequence. If there are 2 or greater human beings accessible then blow into the mouth,

Answer 8

always remember this in any critical situation--
YOU CAN'T KILL A DEAD PERSON
or in simpler terms.......who cares? O2/CO2/combo/whatever...they are receiving CPR