[ SECRET POST #3097 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3097 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

But don't you need MORE than CPR? On TV, they give CPR, and then the person comes around. My understanding is that the CPR keeps everything flowing, but until you get a defibrillator or some way of restarting the heart, CPR is just keeping you alive. It won't revive you. That's the part that seems terribly unrealistic on TV.

[(Anonymous)]

DA, but my understanding is that CPR can in fact restart a heart that's stopped, and a defibrillator is not useful if the heart's in asystole. Defib works on certain patterns by essentially shocking the heart out of an irregular heartbeat, into asystole, and then (hopefully) back into a normal rhythm. TV's fondness for having a person flat-line and then trying defib is unrealistic there.

Chest compressions should only be done on someone whose heart has stopped (likewise, breathe only for a person who isn't breathing on their own). They could help revive a person... but the other unrealistic thing as far as telly goes is the success rate of CPR. The number's anywhere between 2% and 30%, depending on where you are/which studies you accept. Either way, nowhere near as pervasively successful as TV would have you think, even when performed by a trained professional.

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Just having done first aid training we were told that it doesn't restart the heart. It may rarely bring someone round if they have just stopped breathing e.g. drowning or choking. As anon above said, it is to keep things going until you can shock them. The ambulance guy who ran it said in 20 years he'd never seen anyone brought back with just CPR alone. This is why the public use defibrillators are a good thing.

I had never thought about how defibrillators work until he explained it - changes how you view most medical dramas!