...compared to the evolution of other medical knowledge and treatments, I find it crude and barbaric in the year 2007. We all know it's efficacy rates. When will a truly effective resuscitaton technique be developed? ** I think we need to place coded patients in some kind of 'bellows' device which will completely collapse heart and vessels and re-open with an effective circulation.
2007-10-11 06:43:36 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Heart Diseases
I have my info from 30 years of Paramedic and Firefighter work in a big city. I have done more CPR than you are ever going to do, and yes I have of course many 'lives saved commendations'...however I stand by my statements.
2007-10-11 07:36:58 · update #1
I think this procedure requires a national consideration; it can be started from school level once a week, this will be big back up as far as CPR is considered.
Regarding your second part of question, it is barbaric in an untrained hand.
2007-10-11 07:34:11 · answer #1 · answered by Dr.Qutub 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
It is barbaric, unless you're the one down on the ground pulseless and cyanotic. CPR has undergone so many generations; here we are in 2007 and now its 30 compressions & 2 breaths x 5 for a two minute cycle, with a focus on good compressions to maintain coronary perfusion pressure. Next year it'll be something different. Its as much a medical political game as anything else. But, do lives get saved? Sure. So its the best thing we have right now.
Here's one for the old timers; how many of you remember delivering a precordial thump and having it work? I certainly do. Having it work only once and you're hooked.
Ralph
2007-10-11 14:01:38 · answer #2 · answered by ralphrepo_01 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I am not sure where you got your info from,But CPR has saved many lives.
2007-10-11 14:07:52 · answer #3 · answered by Dew 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋