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Comment on Improve Your Chances of Getting a Job by Tampa CPR

Tampa CPR — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 06:39:11 +0000

I teach CPR classes in Tampa It's good to see the AHA has kept rescue breathing in the curriculum, especially for children and infants who need more oxygen.

Comment on CPR Guidelines First Post by Bob Beasley

Bob Beasley — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 15:34:21 +0000

TO PIKAVIPPI: Please sir/ lady, learn a little physiology. Exhaling carbon monoxide? One exhales carbon dioxide and oxygen. In fact, there is plenty of oxygen available in exhaled air to share with SCA victims, even if they needed it – which they don’t. They just need to have someone pump on their chest to circulate the oxygenated blood to the brain and heart.

I thoroughly agree with the rest of your arguement against the AHA. Right on regarding them as a money making demigod. My proposal is that we good guys boycott the AHA and ARC and just teach CPR on our own following guidelines suggested by ILCOR. Push Hard. Push Fast. It’s sound and legal. Bob Beasley, University Prof

Comment on CPR Guidelines First Post by Bob Beasley

Bob Beasley — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 15:10:24 +0000

C.A.B. Can you believe it? The 2010 CPR guidelines committee is made up of very bright and dedicated scientists. But, at the end of the day the best they can come up with as far as guidelines go, is C.A.B.! Not only is the acronym ridiculously corny, it does not reflect the science. And the studies show over and over again that the best CPR is uninterrupted chest compressions sans breathing. Yet the committee would have rescuers stop compressions after about 30 seconds to open the airway and give two breaths. Wrong! Not according to research. Then they direct us to alternate 30 compressions with 2 breaths Wrong again! Research says: Push hard, push fast and don’t stop – even for a second, especiallynot to blow in to the lungs.

Comment on A Typical CPR Course – Recommendations by admin

admin — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 17:36:25 +0000

@pikavippi,

Thanks for your comments! I love what you say about the money. I’ve heard the same thing from others. It is true that new standards call for new textbooks and new textbooks make new cash. Interesting…

Also, you can’t get sued for breaking their ribs if they are already dead unless you were grossly negligent. Compression only CPR is acceptable for non-rescuers.

@ Hotellit — funny stuff. I’ll have to remember that.

Comment on The Problem with Compressions In the EMS Field by admin

admin — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 17:32:16 +0000

Well, it’s not much Oxygen that leaves the body, in fact, it is enough to survive off of…

Children are more responsive in this aspect because they don’t put all that garbage in their bodies to burn out their heart like adults do.

The other point of Airway though, I believe is designed to detect and remove any obstruction—like let’s say if someone chokes on something and then goes unconscious.

They have changed the guidelines though so that people who do not regularly rescue do not have to provide air to the person. It’s really difficult to sue someone for what you do when they are in cardiac arrest because you have to prove damage and like on old instructor of mine said, “You can’t get any deader than dead.”

Comment on The Problem with Compressions In the EMS Field by Hotellit Tukholma

Hotellit Tukholma — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 13:58:08 +0000

I just got re-certified two day’s ago, and I could never understand the breath part because you’re not really giving the victim that much if any Oxygen your mostly giving the victim Carbon Monoxide which is poisonous to humans and that is why when we exhale CO2 is what is leaving are body and not the O2 we inhaled, but you got to follow the guide lines so you won’t get sued if the person dies.

Comment on A Typical CPR Course – Recommendations by Hotellit Tukholma

Hotellit Tukholma — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 13:11:03 +0000

The first rule should be…if it’s an attorney, just step on over and away from the body.

Comment on CPR Guidelines First Post by Hotellit Tukholma

Hotellit Tukholma — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 08:40:59 +0000

They taught us to evaluate the casualty before doing anything. Iam not doing mouth to mouth with some stranger I guess ill just pump on there chest and get sued for breaking there ribs.

Comment on A Typical CPR Course – Recommendations by pikavippi

pikavippi — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 23:28:30 +0000

They taught us to evaluate the casualty before doing anything. Iam not doing mouth to mouth with some stranger I guess ill just pump on there chest and get sued for breaking there ribs.

Comment on CPR Guidelines First Post by pikavippi

pikavippi — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 23:20:15 +0000

This is absolutely insane! The only thing this is going to change, is them saying, “Oh, I guess this doesn’t work. Let’s change it back.” The ONLY reason they are doing this is for money, plain and simple. Many EMS textbook publishers had to hold off printing new scope of practice textbooks, just to wait for the AHA to change their guidelines. You watch, a few years down the road, they will change it yet again. And in EMS, with a world full of acronyms, changing from the standard ABC (which we will have to remember still), they now have moved it to CAB. This is just frustrating.