What if I ever need it?

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• sanpedropeddler@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Just do chest compressions only

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  • elxeno@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Saw an elephant rescue a few days ago and the chest compression was a dude jumping on top of it.

    Found a news article about it

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  • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The amount of people who have commented to you with completely incorrect reasons for why you only do compressions is something else. They’re all getting up voted, too.

    But anyhow, for all of them: Single person cpr is non stop compressions at 100 to 120 bpm, non stop.

    Two person cpr is the same rate, but two breaths every 30 compressions (2 every 15 for an infant).

    Single person cpr is done that way now, because one person working by themselves can’t manage to effectively do both for very long at all before starting to screw up or move to slow, and the compressions are most important. It basically takes to long to stop, move up towards the head, tilt the head back, open the mouth, give two appropriate breaths while looking for chest rise, then reposition and go back to compressions.

    Trust me when I say that you’ll be wore the heck out if you have to do 120 compressions a minute, almost hard enough to tear ribs from cartilage for more than a few minutes on your own. Adding in the breaths just isn’t something that has been shown to pay off.

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    • pmk@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I have to do CPR training once per year, and almost every time they’ve changed the recommendations. I don’t even remember the current recommendations now.

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  • SeekPie@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    (Iirc) It’s actually reccmended not to do mouth-to-mouth because you’ll probably do more damage than help.

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    • GladiusB@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think it’s not so much harm as it is not as effective as the compressions. When I took CPR the irradiated many times that compression is the place to be when performing CPR.

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    • HikingVet@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It is easy for you to over inflate someone’s lungs when you are doing cpr. Especially if you are larger than them.

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    • Laticauda@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Just got my certificate for first aid training and this is not true. It has changed a few times but atm mouth to mouth IS recommended.

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    • Pinklink@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Depends on the situation. Coughing/choking/asphyxiating: no do not do mouth. Chest compressions and back blows. No consciousness and no heart beat: chest compressions and rescue breathes.

      Of course do not do anything you are not trained in. However, if no one else is, your even if your cert has lapsed, good Samaritan laws are pretty lenient

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  • brown567@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    From what I understand, chest compressions move the lungs enough to equate to shallow breathing (as long as the airway is clear)

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    • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s because there’s still enough oxygen in the blood to keep the brain alive for quite a while, so long as you can keep moving different blood to the brain. The brain is what kills you and what needs the most oxygen, so just cycling the blood that’s there will keep it from dying for quite a while.

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  • JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I wouldn’t even know where to do the compressions on a giraffe. Call for a zoo employee is the best answer I can come up with.

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    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I got you fam.

      (Those are some huge ass lungs, I don’t think I am strong enough)

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• underwire212@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Official guidelines (in the US at least) suggest just doing chest compressions.

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  • ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ok … so if I see a giraffe collapse from a heart attack or some medical emergency and they are unconscious … I should just concentrate on chest compressions … got it, thanks 👍

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    • ickplant@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This is the kind of information that will help me sleep at night.

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    • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Probably push quite a bit harder than you’d think unless it’s a baby giraffe and then I’d probably push close to adult human level as in routine cpr training. Write this down so you don’t forget it.

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  • rbos@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ditto Canada

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• ryan213@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t see any other way of doing it.

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  • moistclump@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Double team it?

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If there is at least 1 other person to assist, I don’t see it being too difficult.

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  • ickplant@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This would require having a friend…

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• Ioughttamow@kbin.run ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is what long novelty straws were made for

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• Jerkface@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ah, yes! Another joke solved by Lemmy! Thank God nobody has to laugh at this amusing thought anymore. What an upsetting situation that would have been.

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  • Dozzi92@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Would you rather everyone just say “lol” next post instead?

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    • Jerkface@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I made a shit comment, I’ll admit. It’s just frustrating to see multiple top-level comments in meme, 196, and shit post threads shitting all over a clever joke because of a technicality. It’s a fucking giraffe, this is not a PSA.

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