CPR training finally paid off

Dunks said:
:o

Must say, there seems to be quite a lot of doctors in this thread/forum!
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Indeed, I think OCUK has by far the widest range of members and professions of any other forum I've visited - everything from school kids and students, to doctors and surgeons, to business owners and entrepreneurs, to pilots and soldiers.
 
tres said:
basic hangover.

What do you do?
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Hangover? Save that for the end of the shift please ;)

I'm a medical SHO working at St Thomas'. Working through my rotations, and applying for registrar jobs this year. I'm also an ALS (advanced life support) instructor.

kgi said:
I just have this visual of someone pumping at a rate of 100-120 per min and seems to be increadibly fast. It's always slower in the movies when they count 1,2,3,4.. - is that the same thing as the compressions you are talking about? (I know I must sound like a complete tool..)
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Movie/tele CPR is dreadful and sets a bad example. Sometimes, it's because they're performing it on a live actor, and they don't tend to like having their thorax deform. Othertimes because it's exhausting. We try to rotate who's doing the CPR every other cycle or so when at an in hospital arrest. You don't always have that luxury at an out of hospital one.

encephalopathy said:
my best feeling was opening a chest in an arrested person, squeezing the heart and have it start beating again. mind you it only did so for another 45 mins before they died.
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Where was that? We had similar when I did my A&E SHO rotation at the Royal London. Some of the polytrauma that came in the door there was horrific.

Look down, cannula in, bloods off, look up. Erm - when did they open the chest??? Lungs look pretty neat when the chest is open and they're ventillated.
 
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