How many here are qualified to perform CPR on a complete stranger and would you today?
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If someone needs CPR no hesitation and if one of my first aid kits is around I have a CPR mask. Cheap investment
I may be wrong, but I thought mouth to mouth wasn't recommended anymore.
I wouldn't hesitate. Not going to just sit there and watch someone die.
Unless your name is meemaw and you live in a nursing home, I like your chances a hell of a lot better than staring at someone on the floor in need of CPR.
There is a growing sentiment for not performing CPR on these pts. Once they are ill enough to go into cardiac arrest mortality is 100%. They won't be saved. It is major a exposure risk to those performing the CPR. Sounds awful I know, but I have not seen a patient survive past that point. But CPR on an out of hospital arrest is a different story. Current guidelines dont recommend mouth breathing.
Outside of a hospital, I would not hesitate. I would be more inclined to do hands only.
Without hesitation.Johnny2Fan said:
How many here are qualified to perform CPR on a complete stranger and would you today?
Yes. They're going to get compressions only but that's not necessarily a bad thing.
I'm not letting someone die on the street. Will do ABC CPR until the paramedics arrive.
There have been a lot of nurse deaths in NY (mostly in their 60s) and I'm curious if many of them were exposed to high viral loads in a "Code Blue" situation. The LA Times published a story the other day about a nurse in her 60's who contracted Covid after doing CPR without an N95 and she died.
Our hospital now has an across-the-board policy essentially delaying ACLS until a specific team arrives and dons Covid PPE. This includes the heart floor which has not been taking Covid patients. So if we have a non-covid heart patient go into Vtach we have to designate one person to do CPR and no one else, even the charge nurse, is allowed into the room to put the defibrillator on until the rapid code team arrives. So in the past a quick shock (less than 2 minutes) could happen but now it may take 10 minutes or more. Death rates for in-hospital codes are going to go way up.
Our hospital now has an across-the-board policy essentially delaying ACLS until a specific team arrives and dons Covid PPE. This includes the heart floor which has not been taking Covid patients. So if we have a non-covid heart patient go into Vtach we have to designate one person to do CPR and no one else, even the charge nurse, is allowed into the room to put the defibrillator on until the rapid code team arrives. So in the past a quick shock (less than 2 minutes) could happen but now it may take 10 minutes or more. Death rates for in-hospital codes are going to go way up.
My wife's hospital had a non Covid patient die due to Covid policies about intubation. I'm sure lawsuits will quickly follow.
We've been specifically told "there's no such thing as a true emergency during a pandemic."
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