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What is Adam Savage doing there?

..also, why are they encouraging hands only CPR instead of chest compression with ventilation?
(c'mon I'm sure someone here knows).

>> ^grinter:

What is Adam Savage doing there?
..also, why are they encouraging hands only CPR instead of chest compression with ventilation?
(c'mon I'm sure someone here knows).

http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/07/28/chest.compressions/index.html

This might have the answer you're looking for. In short, if people don't have to do ventilation, they're more likely to attempt CPR.

EMTs have known this for years...on another note: Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust" works well, too.

Sadly, my 7 yo daughter (who was born with a congenital heart defect, and then had 2 heart transplants) finally succumbed to heart failure at Stanford University, due to complications of rejections resulting in Coronary Heart Disease. She died suddenly just days after Easter, and days before her birthday.

And as for the Chest Compression only, it is far more important to keep the heart pumping manually than it is to get "air into the lungs". By his recommendation, 911 would have the Emergency Medical Technicians there in a timely manner with very little to no damage to brain matter and other organs. Ventilation is sketchy at best (the R in CPR), and it stops one from manually pumping the heart for a short time. Remember, we don't absorb all the oxygen in the blood by the first pass, and you keep clots from forming, too (as I seem to recall...someone correct me on this?)

I am so sorry to hear this. My condolences. There are no words.


>> ^oblio70:

EMTs have known this for years...on another note: Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust" works well, too.
Sadly, my 7 yo daughter (who was born with a congenital heart defect, and then had 2 heart transplants) finally succumbed to heart failure at Stanford University, due to complications of rejections resulting in Coronary Heart Disease. She died suddenly just days after Easter, and days before her birthday.

>> ^grinter:

What is Adam Savage doing there?
..also, why are they encouraging hands only CPR instead of chest compression with ventilation?
(c'mon I'm sure someone here knows).



Chest-compression-only versus standard CPR

On a side note Ken Jeong is a Medical Doctor