You know, CPR can save a life, even if you only do rapid, effective compressions.

It's always helpful to sing "Another One Bites the Dust" while beatboxing the Duns. Perfect rhythm for a rate of atleast 100.

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Indubitably: Compression is more important than breaths, people.

Know this and practice it in your revivatory functions, should you ever need to save someone's life.

You do everyday, by the way.

Merry Christmas.

In sudden cardiac arrest from a primarily cardiac cause, yeah. You're right. Compression is important.

Any other cause? Important, but in conjunction with other modalities.

/compression only CPR is a way to ensure a pediatric or neonate in arrest stays in arrest.

Indubitably: BronyMedic: Indubitably: Compression is more important than breaths, people.

Know this and practice it in your revivatory functions, should you ever need to save someone's life.

You do everyday, by the way.

Merry Christmas.

In sudden cardiac arrest from a primarily cardiac cause, yeah. You're right. Compression is important.

Any other cause? Important, but in conjunction with other modalities.

/compression only CPR is a way to ensure a pediatric or neonate in arrest stays in arrest.

Yo, thanks for your elucidation; other modalities exactly, what are those: *you insert examples*

Thank you.

Do your work here and now...

Ack. Sorry.

Compression only CPR works in Adults with Sudden Cardiac Arrest because the problem is one of pump failure - i.e. the heart has stopped beating due to a sudden interruption in coronary perfusion leading to a ventricular arrythmia - most likely ventricular fibrillation. The lungs' alveoli and the hemoglobin in the blood contain several minutes worth of perfusion-worthy oxygen in the reduced metabolic state of cardiac arrest. What was found was that people were not starting CPR at all due to the sheer factor of having to do mouth to mouth, or fear of catching a disease, leading to them being non-salvagable when people like me got there with the good stuff. Hands-only CPR promotes cerebocardiac resuscitation by keeping perfusion to the coronary vasculature that is not blocked, and the brain, and buys time till defibrillation and ACLS interventions can occur, and in the short time of waiting for EMS to arrive in a modern suburban or urban setting, is shown to not adversely affect oxygenation at the end-organ level.

In someone such as an Asthmatic, Allergic Reaction or COPDer however, the arrest is more related to the carbon dioxide retention, general respiratory and metabolic acidosis, and hypoxia. In that case, Compression-only CPR is going to do jack shiat. They need breaths, preferably at high pressure delivered through an endotracheal tube with a long expiratory time. And drugs. Lots and lots of drugs.

Pediatrics and Neonates most often go into cardiac arrest due to primarily respiratory and metabolic disorders, in that order. They need oxygen, airway control, and fluid boluses. And Epinepherine. Dead kids love Epi.

This is also the reason why adult CPR teaches "Call First", to get an AED or Defibrillator there quick, versus Pediatric/Infant CPR which teaches the "call fast" paradeigm after 1 minute of CPR due to the presumptive cause of arrest being hypoxia.

Traumatic Arrest? any kind of CPR is usually futile if they're in arrest when you get there. 0.1% survival rate for Traumatic Full Arrests in Field even with optimum care.