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Re: Well.....
03/08/13 12:34 AM


> My forum name isn't just for show. I've been on an ambulance service for 17 years.
>
> The dispatcher is just doing their job - Doing something is better than doing nothing
> at all. Something that I've always thought of during the times I've done CPR is how
> long they've been down vs. the quality of life they will have after they've been down
> that long IF we get them back. CPR doesn't have a high success rate. You roughly have
> 6 to 10 minutes once brain death starts to occur after you stop breathing.
>

I read that she had a stroke. Would CPR have done any good to begin with?







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* Nurse Won't Give CPR To Elderly Woman, Lady Dies METRODUCK 03/06/13 11:56 PM
. * You don't ever CPR on someone who is breathing, friggin' incompetent dispatcher [nt] Olivier Galibert  03/07/13 07:52 AM
. * Well..... TheBigAmbulance  03/07/13 06:24 PM
. * Re: Well..... Allnatural  03/08/13 12:34 AM
. * Re: Well..... DMala  03/08/13 06:20 AM
. * Re: Well..... TheBigAmbulance  03/09/13 05:53 AM
. * Well, if she's hot... URherenow  03/07/13 02:53 PM
. * WTF do the CPR damn it. Geeze. Dullaron  03/07/13 06:42 AM
. * ...As per her and her family's wishes. GatKongModerator  03/07/13 12:06 AM
. * Re: ...As per her and her family's wishes. DMala  03/07/13 04:09 AM
. * Re: ...As per her and her family's wishes. GatKongModerator  03/07/13 05:50 AM
. * Re: ...As per her and her family's wishes. DMala  03/07/13 07:25 AM
. * Re: ...As per her and her family's wishes. URherenow  03/07/13 02:45 PM
. * Re: ...As per her and her family's wishes. igamabob  03/07/13 04:41 AM
. * Re: ...As per her and her family's wishes. DMala  03/07/13 05:23 AM

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