Lemmyns of Lemmy who have received CPR, what was experience like for you? What do you remember? (lemmy.world)

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I had to help give CPR to someone recently, and their eyes were partly open. Got me wondering whether they were partly conscious while I was doing compressions.

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[-] Windex007@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago

Saw it done on someone once. If you're in bad enough shape that you're getting it, you are for sure not going to remember it. Which is good because it's fucking violent

[-] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 14 points 2 months ago

For real, IIRC CPR instructors will sometimes tell students that the ambulance medics would rather have broken ribs on their hands than oxygen starvation in the brain.

It's actually why so many medical professionals rant about families who cancel DNRs, because the elderly are especially likely to suffer injury during CPR.

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