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re: Just finished an infant CPR class...
Posted on 7/26/15 at 9:42 pm to Wobstaclaw
Posted on 7/26/15 at 9:42 pm to Wobstaclaw
I lol'd at this post. I remember it freaked me out, too. But I never really discussed it. Both my children have come freakishly close to choking, but maybe thats just what happens to kids
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Posted on 7/26/15 at 9:44 pm to Wobstaclaw
9 months after we got the first one home I was shaving and heard a blood curdling scream from my wife in the living room. She was trying to give him some medicine and he coughed it up and aspirated it. Time I got there he was blue and still on the floor of our living room. Baseball slid into him screaming at my wife to call 911. Flipped him over and started to beat the shite out of him. 5 hits in he started coughing. Longest 30 seconds of my life.
This post was edited on 7/26/15 at 9:45 pm
Posted on 7/26/15 at 9:45 pm to Wobstaclaw
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Anybody ever had to administer CPR to an infant? It's fine, right? Works every time?
CPR only occasionally works, adult or infant. Worth trying if you don't have an EMT on hand with a defibrillator but the success rate is only about one in ten if that.
Posted on 7/26/15 at 9:46 pm to LSUTigerDDS
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Baseball slid
Would definitely have preferred to practice this during the class.
Posted on 7/26/15 at 10:21 pm to Wobstaclaw
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Anybody ever had to administer CPR to an infant? It's fine, right? Works every time?
Infant, child, teen, adult...if CPR is necessary, the result is seldom fine.
Posted on 7/26/15 at 10:46 pm to Wobstaclaw
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In preparation for my first kid. It pretty much freaked me right the hell out.
Anybody ever had to administer CPR to an infant? It's fine, right? Works every time?
Did this two weeks ago, my first is due in September. Maybe it is the optimist in me, but it didn't really freak me out.
Only thing I'm nervous about was the fact I was the only one in the class they had to teach a different technique to, because my middle fingers are so much longer than my index fingers.
Posted on 7/26/15 at 10:49 pm to MDTiger 13
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Infant, child, teen, adult...if CPR is necessary, the result is seldom fine
I have dealt with 4 code blue's in my life. So far I am 4 for 4. I know the odds, and am scared of my next one because I am due. Just remember the basics: get someone to call 911 and get oxygenated blood to the brain. The rest is in God's hands.....
Posted on 7/26/15 at 10:56 pm to LSUTigerDDS
Lucky you I'm in ems and we've only gotten one code out of the dozen or so I worked and even then the pt died later that night and whoever said something about what it does to the elderly... If you ain't breaking ribs you ain't doing it right
Posted on 7/26/15 at 10:59 pm to LSUTigerDDS
CPR has a very good success rate if it's started quickly enough and the compressions are worth a damn, you can't half-arse it. That being said, the feel of someone's ribs cracking as your doing compressions is really weird.
This post was edited on 7/26/15 at 11:00 pm
Posted on 7/26/15 at 11:42 pm to Wobstaclaw
I have worked in the emergency medical field since 1989, and have had to do it several times too many. It doesn't always work out. As a matter of fact, it rarely works. Knowing CPR and being prepared to do it gives a baby a far greater chance than the 0% chance it has without receiving CPR if it's needed.
Paramedics, nurses and doctors can certainly provide important and advanced treatment. Just remember that all the advanced treatments in the world are useless if the basics (cpr) aren't provided early. That 1st, and most important, line of defense is you. If you ever need to use it, DO NOT hesitate or second guess yourself. Every second counts.
Ok, stepping down from the soapbox now.
Paramedics, nurses and doctors can certainly provide important and advanced treatment. Just remember that all the advanced treatments in the world are useless if the basics (cpr) aren't provided early. That 1st, and most important, line of defense is you. If you ever need to use it, DO NOT hesitate or second guess yourself. Every second counts.
Ok, stepping down from the soapbox now.
This post was edited on 7/26/15 at 11:47 pm
Posted on 7/27/15 at 8:13 am to Wobstaclaw
What I tell everyone in my FA/CPR/AED class is that once you have to perform CPR, there is a good chance that the person receiving CPR is not going to make it, but not performing CPR, there is a 100% chance that they will die. The chance for recovery goes down by 20% for every minute that CPR is not performed, so every second counts. Also remember on an infants and children, if you are by yourself, perform two rounds of CPR before calling the paramedics.
Posted on 7/27/15 at 8:32 am to Wobstaclaw
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It pretty much freaked me right the hell out.
Yep. It's disturbing to think about ever needing that, but that's why you do take the class. I guess take comfort in the fact that you'll probably never need to use CPR but you'll be prepared if you do.
Posted on 7/27/15 at 10:52 am to Wobstaclaw
I once administered mouth to mouth to a newborn in the hospital nursery, when oxygen flow to an ambu bag stopped for unknown reason.
Posted on 7/27/15 at 10:53 am to Wobstaclaw
It is pretty unnerving. And the first time your kid chokes you are still going to shite your pants.
Posted on 7/27/15 at 11:02 am to foshizzle
CPR in an infant is usually just R because the infant is apneic not bradycardic, so it is much more likely to be successful if administered correctly. The biggest danger in an untrained person is overventilation by pushing too much air into a small infant/child and causing a pneumothorax.
If the infant is without HR, they also respond better than most adults because most infant arrests are due to non-cardiac reason (apnea that is not responded to) and the heart itself is intrinsically healthy.
If the infant is without HR, they also respond better than most adults because most infant arrests are due to non-cardiac reason (apnea that is not responded to) and the heart itself is intrinsically healthy.
Posted on 7/27/15 at 11:06 am to Sheep
quote:Made Scruffy laugh.
Anybody else just watch the infant CPR video? We had to watch it in NICU before we went home.
BABY - ARE YOU OKAY?
Couldn't help but think of the Chapelle skit where he is driving though the ghetto.
"Baby! Hey, baby! What are you doing out here?"
"N****a, I'm selling weed!"
Posted on 7/27/15 at 11:12 am to Wobstaclaw
I'm an instructor. Have 2 kids. Never had to do CPR on a baby. Babies and children are more likely to have some type of breathing distress than something go wrong with their heart. That's why they get a breath first during CPR, and adults get compresses first.
Second drowning (or whatever it's called) and SIDS freak me out way more.
Second drowning (or whatever it's called) and SIDS freak me out way more.
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