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Few-School-3869 t1_jdweulj wrote

Stayin Alive Stayin Alive

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wildo83 OP t1_jdwh1ar wrote

“Better to have them wake up with broken ribs, than to have them wake up dead.”

  • my cpr instructor
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Few-School-3869 t1_jdwhqti wrote

Yep, broken ribs and you have to not worry about accidentally brushing a woman’s breasts while performing cpr either. I’m sure she’d rather be alive. This woman would

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Jim3001 t1_jdxi9v3 wrote

Me: pushing on the trainer LCD screen: Harder Me: Let me massage the concrete! LCD screen: Correct Me: Damn! I push like this for 2 minutes?! Instructor: Yup! Keep going!

I then understood why they take turns in the ER. You're caving in their chest and doing it for minutes on end.

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jdog7249 t1_jdx529e wrote

I prefer Another One Bites The Dust. Adds some irony to successful CPR and if it fails then you already started the funeral Playlist.

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pingus3233 t1_jdwkl4n wrote

"You were in the parking lot earlier, that's how I know you!"

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at614inthe614 t1_jdxdm42 wrote

I just learned this from my 9 yo niece!

I was watching my nieces while their parents were out- I was 'forcing' them to listen to my music.

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Celtictussle t1_jdyef3h wrote

I know this will get buried, but I had a layover at an airport that had one of these. I thought....eh, sure, why not. It was loud, and embarrassing in a super busy concourse, but super memorable at drilling in the cadence and strength needed to do chest compressions. It's an experience you might easily chalk up to a waste of time, or something only an outgoing person might do to burn a few minutes.

Except a few years later one of my best friends heart stopped right in front of me. I immediately rolled him over, started compressions, and restarted his heart in about 75 seconds. It was like clockwork, just like I remembered on the machine "ahhh, ahh, ah, ah, staying alive, staying alive". I kept repeating it in my head to keep the beat. Staying alive, staying alive. And he did stay alive. His heart restarted on it's own, he went to the hospital, and had zero long term side effects.

So if you guys see one of these things, go ahead and use it. It might save your best friends life.

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Excludos t1_jdzv8sk wrote

>It's an experience you might easily chalk up to a waste of time

CPR, and first aid in general, is the one thing you train for hoping it's going to be a massive waste of time, but you'll regret it for the rest of your life if you didn't and it wasn't

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wildo83 OP t1_jdzd29j wrote

yup, i can’t stress the importance of learning it.

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Allergicwolf t1_jdwrt3h wrote

"oh where were you certified?"

"uh. Well -"

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Van_GOOOOOUGH t1_jdwt8tc wrote

Touch Nipples to Begin

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Buck_Thorn t1_jdwh6vx wrote

If you fail, does it announce it over the airport loudspeakers so that everyone can laugh at you?

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template009 t1_jdwvqfa wrote

You gotta wonder about the person who learned CPR at a kiosk tough.

"That tickles, is that real CPR or kiosk CPR?"

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dangerousbob t1_jdwynjd wrote

For a second I thought that was a device that you would like, drop a choking person in and it would perform CPR on them.

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sizzlinpapaya t1_jdxyggu wrote

Was expecting this to be just a doctor mike video on loop.

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[deleted] t1_jdwkeaq wrote

Saw one of these the other day too, curious if anyone has used it

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Bschitty t1_jdx7ckq wrote

Indianapolis haha. Every time I see it I think how many people actually try it.

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Electricsocketlicker t1_jdy500h wrote

I did that at the chicago airport. It’s worth it. But i did it late at night and everybody started staring as it blasted staying alive n

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Huck_N_Fell t1_jdyeful wrote

What airport is this at? I saw one of these this past December in the Orlando airport and had planned to try it out when we flew back home. Then Southwest Airlines had their meltdown and we flew out of Tampa for our return flight instead, so I never got to use it.

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IdealIdeas t1_jdz5xgm wrote

Guy in the background starts having a heart attack

Hold on! I can save him! struggles to find 4 quarters to start machine

guy thrashes on ground

Im almost ready! 3 more levels! Just hang in there!

guy dead

Oh hell ya! Highscore! inputs initials ASS

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[deleted] t1_je07xnj wrote

If they’re choking they need the Heimlich maneuver, not CPR..

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Elfere t1_jdwnm51 wrote

Doesn't cpr only work like 1/10 times?

I wonder what other - more successful - things we could teach people instead.

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killerklixx t1_jdwpx54 wrote

"Nearly 45 percent of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest victims survived when bystander CPR was administered."

"The problem is that not enough people know how to perform CPR"

Source

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djnielse t1_jdwycph wrote

I don’t know…even if that were a real stat I’d say 1/10 odds to literally restart someone’s heart are worth taking. Worst case scenario they’re already dead.

Edit: stat not star

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wildo83 OP t1_jdzakhe wrote

i’d take 1/10 over zero… *shrug

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Oddgamereddit t1_jdwlfon wrote

Can the machine call 911 on you for touching it without its permission?

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banned-again-69 t1_jdxxj7c wrote

An unconscious person in medical distress is legally assumed to be giving medical consent unless they have a do-not-resuscitate bracelet

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Oddgamereddit t1_jdyv5xw wrote

Yeah I know but its always funny that someone is like 'ima sue you cus you helped me' lol

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