(CW: Death) https://piped.mha.fi/watch?v=BRWcy3_fKZs
That video is why everyone should take CPR training. Only two people in that crowd are doing it correctly. The shallow compressions the others are doing won’t circulate blood properly. At best even the guy in the back and the left only stand about a 10% chance of getting them back, but that’s the amount of force used in emergency. I’d put a backboard under an ambulance patient just to be able to put more arm strength into it.
I took a CPR course long ago, and I was surprised at how much force I was told to put into the dummy.
I don’t know if I’d be able to get over the mental hurdle of putting that much force into a person in distress. It’s a weird thing to get over because it just feels wrong even though it’s proper.
I have no idea how I’d handle giving CPR if I had to do it and with how long ago I took that course.
At that point it’s a parasympathetic nervous system response. There’s such an overwhelming urge to do something and you can’t double kill them, so I approach it with the same focused rage of fencing or fighting.
you can’t double kill them
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If you’re doing CPR correctly there’s a decent chance you’ll be breaking a few of their ribs.
