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Cardiac arrest, also known as Sudden Cardiac Arrest, is when the heart stops beating suddenly. The lack of blood flow to the brain and other organs can cause a person to lose consciousness, become disabled or die if not treated immediately.
The terms ‘heart attack’ and ‘cardiac arrest’ are often used interchangeably, but these are two different heart conditions.
A heart attack occurs when there is a blockage in the arteries that stops blood flow in the heart. Due to the lack of blood and oxygen flowing in the heart, the heart muscle tissue will become damaged. Heart attacks can increase the risk for cardiac arrest because heart attacks can alter electrical signals in the heart.
CPR – or Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation – is an emergency lifesaving procedure performed when the heart stops beating. Immediate CPR can double or triple chances of survival after cardiac arrest.
If someone experiences cardiac arrest, they need immediate treatment to increase the flow of oxygen-rich blood to their organs. CPR is the compression over the chest to manually pump a patients heart. Rescue breaths are preformed to provide oxygen to the body.
During CPR, proper hand placement on the lower half of the sternum is crucial. Placing hands over the sternum ensures effective chest compressions directly above the heart, optimizing blood circulation throughout the body.
According to the American Heart Association (AHA), the overall survival rate for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is around 10%. However, survival rates can be improved if bystander CPR is started immediately. Studies have shown that bystander CPR increases the chances of survival for someone experiencing cardiac arrest. In fact, the AHA reports that survival rates increases to 40% or higher when bystander CPR is performed promptly. The surival rate is between 24% and 40% for those that happen in the hospital, according to the report published online in the Emergency Medicine Journal.
CPR is preformed between 100 - 120 beats per minute. Famously Staying Alive by the Bee Gees is the same beat. A large list of songs with the correct BPM can be found here
The American Red Cross gives the following list of steps to asses if CPR is needed and how to preform:
1 CHECK the scene for safety, form an initial impression and use personal protective equipment (PPE)
2 If the person appears unresponsive, CHECK for responsiveness, breathing, life-threatening bleeding or other life-threatening conditions using shout-tap-shout
3 If the person does not respond and is not breathing or only gasping, CALL 9-1-1 and get equipment, or tell someone to do so
4 Kneel beside the person. Place the person on their back on a firm, flat surface
5 The American Red Cross CPR guidelines recommend 100 to 120 chest compressions per minute, 30 at a time. Remember these five points:
Hand position: Two hands centered on the chest
Body position: Shoulders directly over hands; elbows locked
Compression depth: At least 2 inches
Rate of compressions: 100 to 120 per minute
Allow chest to return to normal position after each compression
6
Give 2 breaths
Open the airway to a past-neutral position using the head-tilt/chin-lift technique Pinch the nose shut, take a normal breath, and make complete seal over the person’s mouth with your mouth. Ensure each breath lasts about 1 second and makes the chest rise; allow air to exit before giving the next breath Note: If the 1st breath does not cause the chest to rise, retilt the head and ensure a proper seal before giving the 2nd breath If the 2nd breath does not make the chest rise, an object may be blocking the airway
7 Continue giving sets of 30 chest compressions and 2 breaths. Use an AED as soon as one is available! Minimize interruptions to chest compressions to less than 10 seconds.
Sources:
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/cardiac-arrest
https://cpr.heart.org/en/resources/cpr-facts-and-stats
https://www.mycprcertificationonline.com/blog/cpr-success-rate
Instructional images from the AHS Basic Life Support Manual (2020)
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i guess this is like a public diary thing. mainly checking if anyone else feels this way
i don't really feel like i belong anywhere. i'm very social in my real life, i have friends but i can't help but feel separate from them. like i'm always an outsider, an observer of people, but i don't ever allow myself the chance to be a part of a group in any meaningful way.
this happens in online spaces too; i like to float through social groups, sampling everything and everyone without ever really putting down roots. real roots require vulnerability i don't want to express to anyone except for myself.
i feel like i'm constantly wearing a mask, even now. i'm giving information that is easy to share without getting into my underlying reasons because the thought of actually sharing what causes my neuroses terrifies me to no end. i hate giving people power over me despite feeling like an island literally every day of my life. maybe it's just more comfortable than talking about something real and rolling the dice to see if people are cool with it
I do this except I put down roots that will be excruciating to pull up and then pull them up every time.
feel free to ignore this
why?
Y'know who fuckin' knows, usually historically I have made enemies of somebody in a space, or sometimes I just outright run away from rejection sensitivity. Once I got banned by crackers lmao.
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I've been there ... I left Big City in part because of that. Everyone I knew I had messy shitty (I had a lot of messy shitty romances) history with, and I wanted a new start.
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You should not delete your account, it is rad.
Uh help, I dunno... Appreciate being heard out about it a bit.
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any time :)
The online community I've been a part of the longest (was a on/off regular there for like 6 years and have still occasionally visited over the last few years since), I feel sorta like an outsider invading other's safe space now when I visit for a couple reasons.
This has been me my whole life. I have always felt... distant and separate. I am slowly getting better about it now.
Being on the island sucks, it is a prison. Please try to escape.
it feels like a strength in some regards. passive observation has always been my perspective when i write and i don't know who i'll be if i change that formula
Isn't it lonely for you, feeling like an outsider with no connections? It is for me, its crushing.
I don't know who I am either. But I don't know, on some level just doing what I want to do is nice.
i don't know about having no connections. i can make casual friends just fine, it just hurts me mentally to go past that point
I've discovered today that I use rationalization as an excuse to prevent vulnerability, and to blunt my emotions. Me too.
that makes sense. it's easier to justify a lack of attachment than it is to grow past it. i'm about to make a major leap in that regard and it absolutely terrifies me
good luck!! I am sure it'll be worth it, no matter the outcome. I hope :)
we'll see! honestly i hope it stinks so i don't have to do it again
oh uh, I mean I hope it goes well tbh
Growing up, we had to move every few years cause my mom would go to a new university or get a new job or date a new guy. Even now, I still feel antsy when it's been 3 years in one place and the same circle of friends - there was always a secret relief when it came time to seperate and a secret foreknowledge that no matter what happened with the friends I made, eventually the time would come fairly soon for us to part forever. The only exception was my ex, who I dated in 2 spurts of 5 years - so even they were still subject to this timetable.
I don't have to do this as much any more, I do have an obligation to practice my job very far away from my old homebase but that'll be done in a year and I'll be free to go wherever. I think I'll try to ingratiate myself into a permanent circle of friends, I've been doing the social butterfly, light-touch social life for... my entire life before I could decide on my own as well and it's just not all that fulfilling.
it's hard to imagine a life with that much accountability. i know a woman who has been in her social circle for like 5 years and the thought of anyone seeing me regularly for that long makes me sick with anxiety.
i hope you find something that works for you. you deserve it
Have definitely had a lot of observer feeling, but there's some people whom I feel more of a connection with (particularly my brother) and I think the general feeling of disconnect from everything has reduced in the last 5 months or so for me. But I do have a hard time with vulnerability.
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I guess echoing what others have said, i tend to just up and leave one day. Generally online, but i also do it in person sometimes. I get super in my head that everyone is better with me gone, and just, idk, stop talking to people. I just leave, then i get really sad and miss my friends. Im back in my old friend group after not being here for a decade, and some days its all I can do to leave and never return.
i hope things are going well with your old friend group besides that feeling. i went back to my high school friend group after coming out and it was so isolating and shitty i had to stop again
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