Why YSK: there has been quite a development in the first aid medicine and some things we used to learn are now regarded as myths and should be avoided. Anyway it always good to, keep your first aid knowledge up to date.
What is something that has really changed?
It probably depends on when you did it last time. For me its that breathing mouth-to-mouth is no longer recommended for untrained people and that there are two different stable positions, which depend on whether the person is conscious or not.
You should also know the reason mouth to mouth is “not recommended” is because people get frozen with fear of “doing it wrong” or grossed out by puke/blood and end up doing nothing. So this recommendation is in place to make sure first responders actually do start heart compressions which is the most important if the two. Hoping this is actually explained in the training
Pumping the heart should should still cause some air movement through an unobstructed airway, but not as much as mouth to mouth.
In my country they mentioned the UKs new recommendation, while still recommended mouth-to-mouth. But pumping is priority, do mouth to mouth if you can. And spend as little time as possible on mouth to mouth, get back to pumping asap. Also expect to break ribs when pumping… I really hope I never get to use my COR training
A number of years ago, they stopped recommending and teaching tourniquets because they were concerned about people losing limbs unnecessarily if tourniquets were to be applied unnecessarily.
However, then the Boston Marathon bombing occurred and the California nightclub shooting and they realized that they had made a tragic mistake because a lot of people lost their lives when they could have been saved.
So now, tourniquets are once again recommended and taught.
this. not the i doubt that staying refreshed is a bad thing but i’d love to be surprised at what is new.
I found this article is giving a new perspective to me regarding CPR specifically: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/05/29/1177914622/a-natural-death-may-be-preferable-for-many-than-enduring-cpr
Yes, CPR is brutal and more often than not ineffective. That TV trope where someone gets a few compressions suddenly coughs and sits up all alive and healthy again is complete BS. Literally never happens.
My wife’s a paramedic and in seven years has only seen someone spontaneously regain pulse after CPR twice - and that’s with a team of highly trained professionals and a whole bunch of fancy equipment.
Still worth trying in many cases though, but it’s certainly not a miracle procedure and not something that should automatically be done in every case.
Anyone have any recommendations on Amazon? I want a heated one - ice cold blasts in the pooper are generally not appreciated.
Took me a while to figure out you meant to be commenting on the bidet post!
Is there a no context sub yet?
Could you please add a “Why YSK:”? It’s rule #2. Thank you. :)
Added it! thank you
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Now you have to do cpr in time to a tiktok remix of Saturday night fever
