If proper CPR involves compressing the chest so much such that the ribcage might break - doesnt that breakage risks a bone puncturing the heart?

  • BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works
    12·
    10 months ago

    The person is dead if you don’t do something. You cannot fuck their day up any worse than it already is.

    Don’t think about it, just act!

    • Make sure that you are safe. If no one else is taking charge, you are in charge!
    • Get emergency services on the phone.
    • Clear the airways.
    • Get going with 30:2 at 100-120 BPM.
    • Get some help from the people around you.
    • Send someone for an AED.
    • Send someone to meet the ambulance.

    You can think about it later.

    • MeanEYE@lemmy.world
      3·
      10 months ago

      And to make things clear for people who don’t know it’s 30 compressions, 2 blows of air. For very young children it’s faster though, 15:1.

      • BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        10 months ago

        Depends on the material, I have to teach 30:2 so that people don’t freeze. There’s a special course for people who are responsible for children, they learn a different algorithm, but I haven’t taught that course, so I’d have to read up on it. I believe that it’s still 30:2, but with 5 blows initially.

        So I guess, just do 30:2 and don’t worry about the age part.