Has anyone actually GIVEN CPR to their dog?

Question

Please actual experience only. Serious answers please and thank you.

The Britt : and an idiot as well, right?

Answer 1

my mom has. she is a vet tech and uses a mouth guard that goes completely over the muzzle while a second tech gives chest compressions. i used to volunteer at her clinic and witnessed this once. it was strange to watch, but didn't seem much different than with humans.

Answer 2

Here are CPR instructions, as supplied by Dr. Wendy Wallace.

CPR - Caridopulmonary resuscitaion - is an attempt to supply blood flow and oxygen to the tissues of the body when normal respiration and/or heart function have failed. Time is critical as irreversible tissue damage occurs within 2-4 minutes of respiratory or circulatory arrest. Signs of cardiac arrest include unconsciousness, cesssation of breathing, pale to grey-white gums, dilated pupils.


Check for heart activity

listen to the chest

feel for pulses - femoral artery

Call for help if available!

Airway

open mouth, pull out tongue, look and feel for obstructions

Clear mucus. Careful - DO NOT GET BITTEN!

extend head and neck.

Breathing

with head and neck extended, hold dog's nose with his mouth closed.

inhale, place your mouth over dog's nose and mouth and exhale, watching for chest expansion as you blow.

remove your mouth to allow lungs to deflate.

rate is 12 - 20 breaths per minute.

Circulation - CPR

for deep-chested dogs, place dog right side down with his spine against your body.

position your hands one on top of the other with fingers entwined and the heel of the palm at approximately the level of the 4th - 6th rib, 1/3 of the way up the chest from the sternum.

apply compression in a firm, steady downward motion, release.

rate: approx 100 - 120 cimpressions/minute

single resuscitator: 2 breaths / 15 compressions

double resuscitators: 1 breath / 3-5 compressions

check efficiency by feeling for pulses

DO NO STOP FOR LONGER THAN 30 SECONDS

prognosis is poor if fixed and dilated pupils do not constrict down after initiation of CPR.

Check the books on canine health care listed in the Dogpatch bookstore for more info and diagrams on how to correctly do CPR. More First Aid information can be found at GRCCNY. You can also get a printable CPR brochure.

Answer 3

Yes, I have done it with newborns and once when my friends' house caught fire and we arrived after the fire had been going for awhile. We had several dogs inside and when we grabbed the crates and carried the dogs outside we found one was dead. No pulse and we couldn't find a heart beat. Her bowels and bladder had emptied. But, with CPR she came around and then the ambulance arrived and gave all the dogs oxygen. She is still alive and well, that was 4 years ago. Had nightmares for months.

Answer 4

I have not given CPR to my dog but I am a veterinarian trained in animal resuscitation. You do chest compressions and breathe into their nose - with the mouth closed.
I am sure you can find more info online. But there is such a thing and all pet owners should know it.

Answer 5

Yes, twice in my lifetime. Both survived, both were hung out the side of pick up trucks, the consequence of not using a crate or crossties. It took a while both times, with one dog the dog was so gone it had defecated and was blue, ick, what an awful memory....

Answer 6

Unfortunately, yes. My husband and I had to give CPR to our dog on our bedroom floor after she had a massive stroke from her heartworm treatment. Same principal as human CPR, really. He breathed and I compressed. We got her breathing again, and she did wake up from the stroke in the ER, but died of another stroke that night.
Never had any training in dog CPR, but had human CPR training.

Answer 7

I haven't done it but I took a pet first aid class and learned how.

Answer 8

yes several times and even to newborn pups and all have luckily survived

Answer 9

yes i do it all the time,its so much fun