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Calling the ambulance

I know this is only about the CPR but many non-medicals are also reading this page and expect to see all necessary informations for those situations. Maybe calling the ambulance should at least be mentioned somewhere. Greetings 2003:C3:EF29:3B82:912C:6A6F:7D7F:1AC3 (talk) 14:19, 22 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Arrest board or compression board

A crash cart here has a compression board in brackets on the back. According to staff in Urgent Care, the board is put under a patient on a soft surface, such as a soft mattress, to make compression more effective. Is such board used generally? Can someone knowing practice, write about board usage, please. Thanks, ... PeterEasthope (talk) 15:13, 2 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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CPR does not rely on oxygenation of cells

It is not oxygenation which will be sustained through CPR as in most cases there is no external nor internal breathing in CRA. It is the pressure gradient transporting some nutrients, without oxygen, through the body of course tending more to an acidic metabolism. On the other hand neural and humoral factors helping the cells to survive longer in absence of oxygen and energy deprivation are transported effetively to organs and tissues. Read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_ischemic_conditioning 84.58.249.189 (talk) 07:17, 25 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

There’s some joke nonsense in the paragraph starting with “CPR alone is unlikely…”

The paragraph starting with CPR alone is unlikely to restart the heart” continues with “with it you also have to shove your fingers down the unconcious persons throat grab the heart and sacrifce them to cthulu the undergod start a zombie apolcalple by implanting a virus in the defbrilatted patient.”, clearly a joke someone put in. I don’t know what you are supposed to do to restart the heart, perhaps someone here does? 2A0D:6FC0:F2E:EA00:AD06:CDDA:AA63:DF0A (talk) 18:41, 31 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Interestingly I only see this on the web page, not through the app. 2A0D:6FC0:F2E:EA00:AD06:CDDA:AA63:DF0A (talk) 18:45, 31 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

…and now it’s fixed. Never mind! You folks are fast. Well done. 2A0D:6FC0:F2E:EA00:AD06:CDDA:AA63:DF0A (talk) 18:46, 31 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"Victim" or "patient"?

Hi. I notice that the use of the word "victim" is used to describe the patient throughout a lot of this article. This seems unusual to me; the Advanced Life Support manual here in the UK seems to use the term "patient" exclusively. To me "victim" implies the primary purpose of CPR is to harm, whilst "patient" implies it is to treat. I've decided to ask this as a question on the talk page rather than just edit the article to change it in case this is merely a linguistic/cultural difference between the UK and the US and/or other English-speaking countries. Zinedine Socrates (talk) 19:37, 2 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Therapeutic cooling after cardiac arrest has not led to an increase in survival rates.

Meta-analysis of available research 2603:6011:2A00:2148:D1A8:6DE4:98F7:E4D4 (talk) 04:25, 28 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]