Retired paramedic and CPR instructor here! Right place Right time I used to say. They should teach it in every school. It could help save more lives. I only saved a few with CPR because it took a long time for our ambulance to arrive, but it was always rewarding. ❤❤❤
Very interesting and informative episode. Thank you! Honestly when I saw the graphic for this show I very specifically noticed the exact flowers shown in the illustration. They're all native to where I grew up in Wisconsin, especially the lady slippers and tiger lily. My mom who's passed many years ago loved lady slippers and they're still growing at our family farm. I thought for sure it was a sign from her that I should listen to this episode. Again thank you for such important information. Gotta say, I was hoping to learn about some recent medical breakthrough using lady slippers and tiger lilies. Lol
The irony is that with a cardiac arrest from an opioid overdose, of which there are many, the precipitating factor is respiratory arrest. The heart keeps beating normally for many minutes after breathing has ceased, and a single breath during this time could in itself be life saving.
It is scary and traumatic, imagining the person who has the heart attack was the person who knew what to do about it. All the more with your children in the next room. I performed CPR on an older gentleman who had a heart attack at the gym, who I was told eventually passed. It's been many years now, but I always think back to it and feel a guilty. We got the defibrilator nearby, and I was on CPR on him for 10-15 minutes before the paramedics arrived. The defibrilator was telling me if my compressions were deep enough, but I always wondered if I wasn't breaking his ribs, I wasn't pumping hard enough. I also didn't do mouth to mouth, and I feel anger towards myself that my fear stopped me from doing everything I possibly to save the life of someone's dad, brother... son. I didn't meet any of his relatives after the incident, but somehow I don't think I would be able to face them today, knowing that I failed.
Retired paramedic and CPR instructor here! Right place Right time I used to say. They should teach it in every school. It could help save more lives. I only saved a few with CPR because it took a long time for our ambulance to arrive, but it was always rewarding. ❤❤❤
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Very interesting and informative episode. Thank you! Honestly when I saw the graphic for this show I very specifically noticed the exact flowers shown in the illustration. They're all native to where I grew up in Wisconsin, especially the lady slippers and tiger lily. My mom who's passed many years ago loved lady slippers and they're still growing at our family farm. I thought for sure it was a sign from her that I should listen to this episode. Again thank you for such important information. Gotta say, I was hoping to learn about some recent medical breakthrough using lady slippers and tiger lilies. Lol
The irony is that with a cardiac arrest from an opioid overdose, of which there are many, the precipitating factor is respiratory arrest. The heart keeps beating normally for many minutes after breathing has ceased, and a single breath during this time could in itself be life saving.
It is scary and traumatic, imagining the person who has the heart attack was the person who knew what to do about it. All the more with your children in the next room.
I performed CPR on an older gentleman who had a heart attack at the gym, who I was told eventually passed. It's been many years now, but I always think back to it and feel a guilty. We got the defibrilator nearby, and I was on CPR on him for 10-15 minutes before the paramedics arrived. The defibrilator was telling me if my compressions were deep enough, but I always wondered if I wasn't breaking his ribs, I wasn't pumping hard enough. I also didn't do mouth to mouth, and I feel anger towards myself that my fear stopped me from doing everything I possibly to save the life of someone's dad, brother... son.
I didn't meet any of his relatives after the incident, but somehow I don't think I would be able to face them today, knowing that I failed.
Please believe that it happened!!!; Book of 1 Kings 17:21-22 and 2 Kings 4:32
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