Yeah. Effective compressions are more critical right away, especially if you’re alone. There’s some passive ventilation happening with the compressions.
Breathing IS part of effective cpr. It is absolutely recommended. Compressions alone are better than nothing, which is why we had a brief period where that was taught for one-person-cpr (and was meant to make nonmedical personnel more likely to do SOMETHING), but anyone trained in cpr should absolutely be following the compression:breathing ratio taught in cpr classes.
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
Are we saying that compressions on their own will draw in oxygen?
Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yeah. Effective compressions are more critical right away, especially if you’re alone. There’s some passive ventilation happening with the compressions.
AHA teaches it now I believe.
mle86@feddit.org 4 months ago
While that is true with humans, I’m not sure if that applies to Giraffes with such long windpipes
Localhorst86@feddit.org 4 months ago
Have we tried?
GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today 4 months ago
Breathing IS part of effective cpr. It is absolutely recommended. Compressions alone are better than nothing, which is why we had a brief period where that was taught for one-person-cpr (and was meant to make nonmedical personnel more likely to do SOMETHING), but anyone trained in cpr should absolutely be following the compression:breathing ratio taught in cpr classes.