The main goal of CPR is to get blood flowing to the brain. This is done by putting your hands over the heart (lower half of the sternum) and pushing down for a depth of 2 inches. Allow the chest to come back up, then keep compressing the chest at a rate of 100-120 bpm. That's pretty much it! Basically, you are manually pumping a person's heart after it has stopped beating.
Breathing is still part of CPR, but it hasn't been the main of feature for over a decade now, and the American Heart Association hasn't referred to it as "mouth-to-mouth" in over 20 years.
Yup. I'm actually a cpr trainer, so that's why it's a pet peeve.
In the past, we still taught CPR as 30 compressions and 2 breaths, and explained that people had the option of just doing straight compressions without the breaths. But since all this started, we've been told by the AHA, in no uncertain terms, that we should not be practicing rescue breathing at this time and for the foreseeable future.
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But yeah, it's ridiculous how little attention movies give to chest compressions. Most people will only have them as a frame of reference so it's always a wasted teaching opportunity.
My biggest gripe is that they just do it for dramatic effect - when it really could be shown correctly, and millions of people would subconsciously know how to do it right.
The hand placement is usually off - too high or too low. They don't show realistic rates of compressions, and they don't show realistic depth of chest compression (although I understand they wouldn't be able to do that to an actor). Also, the number of compressions in a set is usually wrong, and they spend waaay too much time dicking around, fumbling with the breaths, beating on the chest (silly) and then after all that drama, only to give up and say 'fuck it' after 30 seconds.
The way CPR is done in movies and shows.
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How do you do CPR? I've heard the mouth-to-mouth thing has fallen out of favour or something.
The main goal of CPR is to get blood flowing to the brain. This is done by putting your hands over the heart (lower half of the sternum) and pushing down for a depth of 2 inches. Allow the chest to come back up, then keep compressing the chest at a rate of 100-120 bpm. That's pretty much it! Basically, you are manually pumping a person's heart after it has stopped beating.
Breathing is still part of CPR, but it hasn't been the main of feature for over a decade now, and the American Heart Association hasn't referred to it as "mouth-to-mouth" in over 20 years.
We also got covid now, so
Yup. I'm actually a cpr trainer, so that's why it's a pet peeve.
In the past, we still taught CPR as 30 compressions and 2 breaths, and explained that people had the option of just doing straight compressions without the breaths. But since all this started, we've been told by the AHA, in no uncertain terms, that we should not be practicing rescue breathing at this time and for the foreseeable future.
Romantic subplots DESTROYED by a WORLDWIDE PANDEMIC
But yeah, it's ridiculous how little attention movies give to chest compressions. Most people will only have them as a frame of reference so it's always a wasted teaching opportunity.
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My biggest gripe is that they just do it for dramatic effect - when it really could be shown correctly, and millions of people would subconsciously know how to do it right.
The hand placement is usually off - too high or too low. They don't show realistic rates of compressions, and they don't show realistic depth of chest compression (although I understand they wouldn't be able to do that to an actor). Also, the number of compressions in a set is usually wrong, and they spend waaay too much time dicking around, fumbling with the breaths, beating on the chest (silly) and then after all that drama, only to give up and say 'fuck it' after 30 seconds.
They never scoop! The food always comes flying out at 60mph!