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Many times. Success rate, even with subsequent defibrilation and drugs, was not very high. This was between 1979-1996.
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Couple times. When you are the first person to do compressions it is really weird. I always feel weird about breaking their ribs. It's creepy. How common is the rib break? Very. Especially with elderly people. |
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4 times in the field as an EMT, 2 brought back, 1 of those passed away a few days later in the ICU.
I stopped counting how many times in a hospital setting when I hit 50. That was in 1994. Eta: I had an AED for my two EMT "saves". Both were shocked. One was pretty funny as I had a crowd of people hovering right over us as we worked, but once the AED said "SHOCK ADVISED. STAND CLEAR." Poof. Everyone disappeared. |
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As a paramedic, many many times.
I think my records were 7 in one shift, and 28 in a week. One save. Who died in the OR. |
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I have 10 years in the medical field. I think maybe 10 or 12 times so far.
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Many times. Like others have said, even with defibrillation, success rate is very low.
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I did the Heimlich on my brother while we were swimming and he started choking on water.
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Lost count, most didn't make it. The one I managed to save ended up later teaching a CCW class for to my fiance. He is a retired Cop and fellow Marine. He was also the only case of torsades I have ever seen View Quote The heart meds I am on, or were, had a potential reaction of torsades because of the prescription cold/flu/infection meds i was taking. I called my mom (nurse) and asked her what "tore-saydees" was. Needless to say. My flu/cold meds went down the drain quickly. |
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More times than I can remember.
Mostly a waste of time and effort, whatever underlying organic issue caused the arrest has taken it's toll. Sometimes you get lucky, traumatic causes are best candidates for a save, something like drowning or electrocution that stopped an otherwise good system, and fixed early. |
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Hundreds of times. My first time was when I was 14 (1984). I was a JR Firefighter and we used to respond to medical calls with the regular volunteers. If memory serves I had only been certified a couple of months. I remember the guy that certified me being concerned about me being able to get deep enough on adult chest compressions. Passed state boards and got my EMT license at 18. Spent some time working EMS before getting in Law Enforcement at 21. I've never had a field save and I am unaware of anytime the Docs have gotten one back after they were dropped off. I've watched so many people die If front of me it's sometimes hard to remember their faces. Then again sometimes when I lay down to sleep their faces are all I can see.
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In movies a lot you see someone doing CPR on someone who is quite messily dead. Blood all over, etc.
Anybody seen that do anything more than spread the blood around? |
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had a lady at work a few weeks ago ....she was choking and then had a heart attack...or had a heart attack while she was eating and started choking..we never found out which
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Many times in 32 years in the fire service. 11 saves. I remember my first CPR call. 6 year old kid in a hospital bed at home with a heart condition. He didn't make it. I still remember that like yesterday. I was 18 and first year on the job.
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Couple times. When you are the first person to do compressions it is really weird. I always feel weird about breaking their ribs. It's creepy. How common is the rib break? Very. Especially with elderly people. Very true. When you're elderly and I start compressions, I know I'm probably going to break a bunch of ribs with the very first compression. It used to creep me out, but now it's more annoying because the flail chest means compressions feel squishy. When you go into a hospital and you're old, think very carefully about whether you really, really want CPR. 9 times out of 10 than I do CPR, I think that this person wouldn't want me to be doing what I'm doing to them. |
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I know a medic on a very busy squad. He said he's never had a save. Made me feel a lot better. Most of our calls are elderly people. You know they're gone, but with the family standing there you have to do something. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Many times. They all died anyway. I'm not a very good EMT. I know a medic on a very busy squad. He said he's never had a save. Made me feel a lot better. Most of our calls are elderly people. You know they're gone, but with the family standing there you have to do something. I've been on my semi-rural fire department in some role or another since 2005. I've been a medic for 7 years. I've had 1 patient survive to walk out of the hospital neurologically intact after cardiac arrest. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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lol on a unwanted regular basis...i'd say right now at a 1/5 success rate
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Many times, usually swapping off between compressions and BVM while paramedics fuck around for 30 mins. Very few saves.
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In movies a lot you see someone doing CPR on someone who is quite messily dead. Blood all over, etc. Anybody seen that do anything more than spread the blood around? View Quote The guy I gave compressions to yesterday was like that. Blood everywhere. I had a facemask and gown on and still kept my eyes squinted and mouth closed in case blood and other body fluids made it over my mask. But no, when you're dead like that, you're most likely going to stay dead like that. |
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Yeah, at least a couple dozen. They all died. But I did save a choking baby once. Wasn't even running a call, just happened to be at the right place at the right time.
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Too many times. Youngest was 2 weeks, oldest was 90. Had a few ROSCs, but only hung a lido drip once. We're trying to do the whole high-quality cpr now where we minimize stopping compressions. We can limit our time off the chest to a few seconds now... Still a very low success rate.
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Medics do them with a BVM. They did take breaths out of layperson CPR though. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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a- push way harder than you thought you'd need to b- go in knowing you are about to get exhausted. (and be glad rescue breaths are no longer taught) c- understand they almost always die, no matter what you do. Trained medics still do breaths. They took it out of the basic CPR is my understanding. Medics do them with a BVM. They did take breaths out of layperson CPR though. I'm required by my employer to take a 4 hour CPR class every other year, and the class I was in two weeks ago still taught giving breaths. |
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Probably about 200+
(one of my first jobs was in a hospital ER) |
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Yes. Feeling and hearing the sternum crack/break was......weird
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My boss had a heart attack beginning of last month skiing. Was given cpr after his heart stopped. Despite broken ribs and ongoing rehab, he started part time work yesterday.
I gave it time a 14 year old drowning. Underwater 45 minutes. They did get his heart beating again in the ambulance, but his brain was gone. |
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I have done it more in the past two weeks than I have in 13 years in the medical field. Mostly drug OD's (heroin/ fentanyl combo). View Quote Quit counting around 300 times. ICU nurse working on the Rapid Response team of the hospital with the most beds in Minnesota. Been doing it since before we had a rapid team. |
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No, but I had to perform the Heimlich on my four-year-old son.
Never been so happy for yearly Air Force training in my life. |
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I wouldn't even begin to guess how many times. Hundreds. Save rate over the last 90 days is over 30%
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Quite a few times. Like most of the other Medics/EMTs in the thread, not many folks make it neurologically intact. The one I remember the best was a guy who got shocked at work and was in V-fib when we got there. Shocked him once and got him back. Heck, we didn't even tube him and he was coming out of it when we got him to the ER.
Worst was back to back pedi codes. Both completely avoidable (drowning and choking on a grape.) |
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a- push way harder than you thought you'd need to b- go in knowing you are about to get exhausted. (and be glad rescue breaths are no longer taught) c- understand they almost always die, no matter what you do. Trained medics still do breaths. They took it out of the basic CPR is my understanding. Medics do them with a BVM. They did take breaths out of layperson CPR though. I'm required by my employer to take a 4 hour CPR class every other year, and the class I was in two weeks ago still taught giving breaths. I can't speak to what every organization is teaching, but I took an AHA BLS Instructor course about six months ago and breaths were out. They may be back for all I know though. Stuff like that comes and goes. |
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Quoted: Last one was covered in their vomit and blood. CSF and blood coming out of their ears. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: In movies a lot you see someone doing CPR on someone who is quite messily dead. Blood all over, etc. Anybody seen that do anything more than spread the blood around? Last one was covered in their vomit and blood. CSF and blood coming out of their ears. |
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This thread makes me feel better. Did it a couple times, don't think any of them made it after EMS loaded them up.
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1st- Floated to ER to tech one morning. Prisoner from county via ambulance. I went too fast and broke some ribs. The ER doc started calling me sparky b/c i was going too damn fast. ie Slow down sparky. He dead
Funniest - Teaching Cardiac Rehab Class - guy passes out, no pulse, yell to clear room, through him to floor, 2nd compression he wakes up and says STOP YOU'RE HURTING ME!!! He had a 36 second "pause" before lighting back up. He bought a shiney new pacer in less than 3 hours after that. Maybe 50 total, 1 save that was post op cabg about 14 hours. Had an awesome group in the room in minutes (surgeon, ER doc, cardiologist, good rns, good rt) and somebody was blessed that day. Worst - AAA that blew out, no hope. Room full of muzzies screaming assaulting themselves and staff (myself included). Scared the shit out of the other pts on the floor. I never will forget the look on the internist's face when he was slapped. He was a lean 6'3" and could have cleared the room in about half a minute had he lost it. The look we shared when security cleared the place could have written a chapter. Not a fun day. "We sue you, We sue you!" Hats off to all you that can handle this shit for years and years. I couldn't. |
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Many times in 32 years in the fire service. 11 saves. I remember my first CPR call. 6 year old kid in a hospital bed at home with a heart condition. He didn't make it. I still remember that like yesterday. I was 18 and first year on the job. View Quote I could never have done ped.s. I would have a hard time handling that. Old people never bothered me too much, that had a life to live. Kudos sir. |
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Just once. Retired British SAS SGT MAJOR . He was waiting for a heart transplant at UAB. Died on a rifle range.
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Yes, only once, on a toddler at the swimming pool in an apt. I lived at where they had no lifeguards. Lived and was fine, had just stopped breathing.
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Twice. Car wreck on A1A and another time in an office building and alternated with an AED.
Didn't work. |
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