can CPR kill victim?

Question

can CPR change normal hearth rythm into deadly VF, VT, PEA, asystole?

say: u do CPR on someone who lost consciousness but still has normal hearth action

Answer 1

CPR- its a life saving technique useful in many emergencies including heart attack or near drowning in which someones breathing or heartbeat stops. It can't really kill or be the cause of any death. what it can't sometimes do is restore a person back to his or her normal life. Thus it can cause impairment or brain damage if the person doing is not an expect.

Answer 2

Try doing CPR on a person who has not suffered cardiac arrest and see what happens. Yes, CPR improperly performed can cause more harm than good. And if the person is unconscious and has a normal heart beat, then CPR would be MOST inappropriate, and it would be circumspect to examine the patient and determine the cause of the unconsciousness: Is the patient breathing? Are there signs of a head injury?

Likewise, performing mouth-to-mouth resuscitation can be inappropriate when performed on a member of the opposite sex who is not actually a drowning victim, like when I served as a lifeguard at a nudist beach. I thought I'd practice my lifesaving skills on a select female and was lucky that I lived to tell about it! heehee

Answer 3

If their heart was beating, yes it would kill them, but you wouldn't perform CPR unless it had stopped. The rule for CPR is:
1 - Check for a response from the casualty
2 - Check the airway (make sure nothing is blocking the flow of air, example throught the throat)
3 - Check for breathing with your cheek. See if their chest rises.
If not, call for help and begin CPR. When I was taught first aid a month ago, we were told to not check for a pulse as it could easily be confused with your own if you didn't know exactly what you were doing. The general rule is, if they are unresponsive and not breathing, their heart is not beating.

Answer 4

As far as VF & VT goes, these are electrical disturbances of the heart which rarely are caused by trauma, however they can be intoduced by strong impact to the chest. Regardless December 2005 guidelines no longer require the lay provider to check for a pulse on adult (8 years and older) victims but rather signs of normal circulation via cap refill, movement, signs of normal breathing, Palor etc... The theory being that we can assist the heart with chest compressions If obvious signs of circulation are absent. My point is can someone fall off a 14 story building and survive? Yes, seen it. Can CPR have a negative effect on the patient? Yes. However I am not jumping off a building and if you happen to see me laying on the ground unresponsive and not breathing normally, Please call 911 and begin CPR. Thanks

Answer 5

CPR rule: Check first if there's absence of HR/PR and breathing before incorporating CPR. Why would you give CPR if he still has normal heart action. But CPR can also kill the victim by compression injuries or some wrong procedures.

Answer 6

The short answer is yes, CPR should not be performed when there is Cardiac Output.
Trouble with this forum is you can get some really wacky and dangerous answers.
The "student Nurse" is very worrying
A pre cordial thump is estimated to be the equivalent of a 50 joule shock from a defibrillator

Answer 7

If they have a normal heart beat, then you should not do CPR. You can do damage. If there is no heartbeat, then do CPR, you can do no damage. I taught this subject for many years, and had to do it "for real" twice. Of the two I'm "batting 500."

Answer 8

Why would you do CPR on someone thats heart is still beating?? I think you would do some real damage, defietly break thier ribs and lung damage and may cause long term heart probs

Answer 9

no it can't change heart's normal rythm.. there's a standard chest compression rate (100 compression/minute) for patient who is pulseless.. you can kill your victim by giving a wrong compression because you may fracture his ribs and may cause severe damage to the underlying major organs..

and you wont do chest compression for a patient with normal pulse..you only give rescue breathing...

Answer 10

If the heart is beating and they are breathing then why would you want to do CPR?