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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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This is stupid as fuck and I need to talk about this or I’m going to almost certainly be overthinking it all night.
heterophobia?
I had a long and pleasant conversation with a guy and one of his friends tonight that went sour pretty quickly and I’m not really even sure what just happened. He was very charming all night and his friend (also a woman) was very nice. Somehow the topic of sexuality came up and we were playfully saying things like “I like tacos and cucumbers equally”, just dumb stuff like that. I was teasing him a little because he said he “didn’t like hotdogs”, to which I cheekily said “free your mind of its shackles, young padawan. there is no spoon.”
He starts going off about how he must just be different because he doesn’t “force his opinions on anyone else” and after thinking he was also still just joking around, I said, “fine, fine I’ll quit bullying you, for now”
He was completely serious! He went on about how I “give people like me (a bisexual woman) a bad name” (???) and by this point I was completely done with the conversation. I was taken aback that he was being so serious about this and told him “you must not be very confident if this is all it takes to get you riled up”, checked out and left immediately.
Listen, like I said, I know this is dumb as hell, but was I actually in the wrong? I thought I was just being a little teasing, nothing serious, but apparently I was “shoving my opinions on everyone else.”
Trans mega, was I a jerk? Or is this guy a weirdo?
sounds like
Yes, see, this was the impression I got too, especially considering the way he brought up “you people” (the gays). Like it felt very…bitter, almost? I’m actually kind of wondering now if this guy wasn’t just straight up homophobic considering earlier in the night he did some gay cowboy schtick that really didn’t land with anyone. It was very much cishet dude bro humor, I'm sure you know exactly how it goes.
There does seem to be a lot of "why can't i say the nword
" energy with these people
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Someone has a very fragile masculinity and a very fragile grasp on their heterosexuality lol
I just...
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Imagine being het and thinking heterosexuality isn't plastered everywhere the fuck? Buddy is in a room with light jesting and had a little internal freak out without the constant beating down of "be hetero be normal" for half a minute
For real, it all felt so harmless to me, but like…I don’t know, I guess there might be some kernal of truth in that frustration, dude can’t help it that he’s straight, sure. But there were so many ways I could have thought to get out of this conversation appropriately if he really wasn’t liking it that he just didn’t opt for at all in lieu of getting really, really defensive right off the bat…and then a little aggressive, too!
is projection, basically how he viewed your discussion. This would be the red flag statement for me.
Sounds like a biphobic, fragile cis queerphobe who tries to hide it badly. I would have had a field day with him.
The guy sounds unfortunately normal... which is a problem. Hets are so used to the constant enforcement of heterosexuality that any deviation from that is somehow seen as an attack. Like how white male christian republicans in the US seem to always think they're the victim.
Not bi/homosexual, but still a fan of anti-heteronormative jokes and have never had a problem with people assuming I was gay. I can see why someone who was het might not like that since potential partners would assume they're not interest, but that's not an issue for people assuming you're bi...
The powerfulness of the reaction is probably due to the fragility of straight cis guys, but at the same time it is a little dickish to repeatedly insinuate someone’s sexuality is different especially when they seem to be getting upset by it
I don't know, I'm autistic as fuck, but it seems like they were already making jokes and the conversation was already leaning in that direction. The wording you used was also clearly in jest (in the context of a conversation already of that tone), and he could have drawn a line without going off about "forcing opinions" and the "bad name" thing.