Comment on Risks of CPR

• Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  No, its useless if their heart has stopped. Two different things.

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  • dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Defibrillators are useless when your dead

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  • rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Fixed.

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• Labonnie@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That’s incorrect.

  Someone might be not breathing for a number of reasons. Most likely however, when you find them unconscious & not breathing on the street it’s for cardiac reasons. And then a defibrillator is the one best treatment for that (if the heart has a shockable rhythm that is).

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