Basically not enough of each. The cold person is warmed, but not enough and not in a safe way, and the warm person is chilled, sometimes enough to become hypothermic themselves.

There will be plenty of situations where it does work, but that's the case with lots of potentially dangerous solutions. Sometimes the person will be on the edge of hypothermia, but not too far gone and a nice warm cup of hot chocolate will warm them up enough for them to recover. That isn't the same as saying that a warm cup of hot chocolate is the best way to fix hypothermia. It's almost certainly what the cold person will want, and it's a very obvious answer. For a lot of cases it will be fine, but in a few situations it will be very dangerous.

That's what this is all about, and why it can be counter intuitive. In most mild cases skin to skin contact or a warm drink will help, but in more severe cases either of these things could be deadly. However, in the mild cases it won't hurt to assume the person is worse than they are and warm them slowly. Unless you're absolutely sure how bad the hypothermia is its much safer to assume the worst.

People aren't very good at assessing things in an emergency situation. This is one of the reasons the CPR training has changed in recent years. They used to spend a long time teaching us how to find a pulse and how to check breathing, but the time spent rafting around with that in an emergency could kill someone. So now you just assume the person isn't breathing and their heart isn't beating and go for it. Giving CPR to someone who doesn't need it is less likely to kill them than delaying CPR with someone who does.

When was eating flesh added to CPR?

It's also unlikely that a healthy young woman would have a heart attack and be revived by zombies.

But I see your point.

Presumably folks would keep doing the compressions until they revived. Which would take the defib unit.


>> ^Deano:

This still promotes the unlikely possibility that someone will gain consciousness after a bit of CPR. I was told it's most likely you'll still need the defib unit. You're just buying time with CPR.

This still promotes the *unlikely* possibility that someone will gain consciousness after a bit of CPR. I was told it's most likely you'll still need the defib unit. You're just buying time with CPR.

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*promote this important information!

Thank you so much for the promote Laura!!!

>> ^renatojj:

This is so awesome. I hope that guy is doing well.


Uhhh yeah he's dead. lol

If you have to start CPR... they aren't coming back

It would be good for CPR training. Or target practice.

How come he didn't do CPRs in The Cape?

You're right.

Of all the CPR PSA's I've seen today, this one is by far the best!

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It's probably the easiest way to make sure you maximize the force rather than dispersing it over a wider area. It's also easy to remember

>> ^hpqp:

This is mega-awesome, but I do have one tiny problem with it: why lock fingers? It looks as if you will risk hurting yourself easier by doing that, and hand-on-top-of-hand is just as effective.

>> ^Fletch:

Do all goons, heavies, muscle, thugs, and bruisers chew gum?


I chew my nails when I run out of gum.

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That's an awesome video. I've done first aid courses twice, and not long after completely forgot the timing for cpr that they said 'X presses down then a breath, then x more at a rate of blah blah blah', and a few different combinations thereof based on age of person. Completely forgettable and ended up with me thinking I should do nothing instead of trying because I wouldn't do it the right way. Switching to hands only, and having something as genius as a well known song to do it to in your head is just A+.

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