Either that or just a panic-brained attempt to do the sick person thing. I've never seen bystanders do useful CPR unless they have a medical background.
I saw the stats for how often CPR revives someone when performed under ideal conditions and that was a sobering moment. TV really does distort how you see the world.
It's wild to see that in a trauma bay. A full team with a combined experience of 100+ years, all the tools of modern medicine, surgery on standby, and it's still like 20% at best for me. That 20% is people who left emergency in a state stable enough for another ward so who knows how many of them survived the next week or year. In the field I didn't expect any of them to recover but reasoned that I couldn't kill them twice by trying everything.
Either that or just a panic-brained attempt to do the sick person thing. I've never seen bystanders do useful CPR unless they have a medical background.
I saw the stats for how often CPR revives someone when performed under ideal conditions and that was a sobering moment. TV really does distort how you see the world.
It's wild to see that in a trauma bay. A full team with a combined experience of 100+ years, all the tools of modern medicine, surgery on standby, and it's still like 20% at best for me. That 20% is people who left emergency in a state stable enough for another ward so who knows how many of them survived the next week or year. In the field I didn't expect any of them to recover but reasoned that I couldn't kill them twice by trying everything.
Yeah. Medicine has gotten a lot better in my lifetime, but when you hit the limits its a sobering reminder that there are a lot of limits. : |