Hmmmm....Hands-only CPR.

[nimrod]

I had heard about this some time back. Looks like it's been endorsed by the American Heart Assoc. Since I'm not crazy about playing sucky-face w/ strangers, you can bet I'll be doin' it to the BeeGees (as described in the first article).

Had a friend that recently saw a man go down at an ice rink. She gathered his kids, while two nurses began (mouth to mouth w/ compressions) CPR. Friend got some history by phone and found the guy had Hep C. Although hep C is not supposed to be transmissible in this manor, I'd just as soon not go there... Friend doesn't think he made it.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/04/01/BAJ8VTF35.DTL

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hOVUvypBGYgOxkIQz5F4D8XIps0gD8VOO1101

http://handsonlycpr.eisenberginc.com/

I dunno though - 100 compressions/min might wear you down to a nub pretty quickly. I wonder if it would be considered bad form to have the crowd sing "Stayin' Alive" just to keep you in time.

[DocDon]

I dunno though - 100 compressions/min might wear you down to a nub pretty quickly. I wonder if it would be considered bad form to have the crowd sing "Stayin' Alive" just to keep you in time.

Don't go down in a roller rink - everyone will leave you and hit the floor.

ps: you are correct, HCV is spread blood-to-blood.

[nimrod]

...Although hep C is not supposed to be transmissible in this manor, I'd just as soon not go there...

WTH?

MANOR?

This old-timer's disease sucks!

[DocDon]

See what happens when you miss applesauce?

[isislc]

I just got recertified by the hospital and we are supposed to do only compressions unless we have a mouth guard. Was told that during mouth to mouth, the victim has about an 80% chance to throw up in your mouth without it as well as whatever other ailments they may have..

[Amerikaner83]

the victim has about an 80% chance to throw up in your mouth without it as well as whatever other ailments they may have..

If I'm ever on Jeopardy, I'll remember that little fact.

[Nascar3]

I just got recertified by the hospital and we are supposed to do only compressions unless we have a mouth guard. Was told that during mouth to mouth, the victim has about an 80% chance to throw up in your mouth without it as well as whatever other ailments they may have..

Being a nurse, I smell a lawsuit here....LOL. Although I completely agree with not WANTING to do mouth to mouth without protection......legal implications anyone?

[matthewscott]

I just got recertified by the hospital and we are supposed to do only compressions unless we have a mouth guard. Was told that during mouth to mouth, the victim has about an 80% chance to throw up in your mouth without it as well as whatever other ailments they may have..

Gross....

[driver]

I've spent some time in law enforcement. If there were more than one CPR qualified person present we used to call it out, "I got the chest" ! Working in the city it becomes a game to "keep you on your toes".

[isislc]

I carry my own just in case. I asked some of the others at work why they didn't get certified. One of them actually responded with "it would be a conflict of interest." I asked why and what are they talking about. She said right out that there are people there that she would rather just want to see die than have to give them CPR because she knew how to do it. This way if she doesn't know CPR, she can have a clear conscious for not doing anything if they are dying of a heart attack on the floor or they stop breathing.

What a b!sh! lol