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There's not much you can or even should do for car accident victims unless you're a paramedic/nurse/doctor. Response times are generally very fast and if you don't know what you're doing, you can make things worse for victims.
And CPR is effective like 10% of the time and usually involves breaking the fuck out of the person's ribs. Many physicians actually have DNRs because they know how fucked up people are if they survive chest compressions which are actually effective enough to restart the heart.
Are they actually trying to restart the heart with CPR of just pumping blood and oxygen throughout the body/brain until they can get defib’d or paramedics show up?
Yeah it's the latter. CPR can restart the heart but it's rare. It's more that you're just forcefully pumping oxygenated blood through the body and to the brain by smashing the fuck out of the person's chest cavity. Given its low success rate, most of the time that just means you're pummeling on a corpse for a while.
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[–] blahblahgafsucks 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
There's not much you can or even should do for car accident victims unless you're a paramedic/nurse/doctor. Response times are generally very fast and if you don't know what you're doing, you can make things worse for victims.
And CPR is effective like 10% of the time and usually involves breaking the fuck out of the person's ribs. Many physicians actually have DNRs because they know how fucked up people are if they survive chest compressions which are actually effective enough to restart the heart.
[–] Dancing_Queen ago
Are they actually trying to restart the heart with CPR of just pumping blood and oxygen throughout the body/brain until they can get defib’d or paramedics show up?
[–] blahblahgafsucks ago (edited ago)
Yeah it's the latter. CPR can restart the heart but it's rare. It's more that you're just forcefully pumping oxygenated blood through the body and to the brain by smashing the fuck out of the person's chest cavity. Given its low success rate, most of the time that just means you're pummeling on a corpse for a while.