Waaay off topic - hands-only CPR

[angib]

In another thread Kirk said:

What happens here is, I have seen it many times, folks post stuff that may not be a perfect fit because they want YOU to see it. They want YOU to see it because if you are a regular here YOU are a friend.

So true. Well, I do feel responsible also for portraying my country sometimes on this forum and here is the perfect example - this is a 45 second TV advert telling you how to do hands-only CPR. Enjoy.



Vinnie Jones was a top Brit football (soccer) player, famous for his 'hard man' playing, who you may recognise as he went on to play gangsters in movies. Please watch his two 'heavies' in the background, unable to resist that BeeGees tune...

[AceMan]

I like it.

[CliffinGA]

Love it! Always liked Vinny especially when he played the soccer hulagan and president of the Manchester United Fan club in Eurotrip!

Cliff

[S. Heisley]

It's a good thing to post, Andrew; and, not really that far off topic. One never knows when we might need the knowledge at a gathering!

[JuneBug]

This is never off topic & always timely. Our friend was on a bike ride, said he didn't feel well and collapsed from a massive heart attack. His life was saved by a passer by who stopped seconds later and immediately started CPR, keeping him alive until the ambulance arrived. None of the cyclists on that ride knew CPR. Had the motorist not stopped, he would not have made it. The ambulance arrived quickly and he was close to a major hospital, but the CPR was the first element leading to his survival.

Now we've all taken a class through Red Cross (we are cyclists). No mouth to mouth; compression only. Simple and effective.

By the way, this guy was supremely fit and in his late 60s. Fit people can still have heart attacks.
He has since started eating the Joel Fuhrman way and his resting heart rate dropped 10 BPM and his cholesterol dropped drastically in a manner of weeks (cholesterol was somewhat controlled with statins).
No guess work on the change in resting heart rate; he's probably monitored his resting heart rate on waking up for the last 20 years.

Similar approach: "Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease: The Revolutionary Scientifically Proven Nutrition Based Cure" by Caldwell Esselstyn and I'm wondering if he is the father of Rip Esselstyn, who wrote the "Engine 2 Diet". Rip is a firefighter and triathlete here in Austin who switched his diet and the diet of fellow firefighters to a vegan diet. Check out Engine2diet.com

[Corwin C]

There are very few things more frightening than not knowing what to do when something like this happens. The secret is to learn the skill before you need the skill. A little bit of knowledge goes a long way. Just keeping your wits about you when dialing 911 will be helpful, the dispatcher on the line will be able to give you instructions if you can't remember.

[zipz71]

Great ad

There is a longer version here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILxjxfB4 ... detailpage

I didn't know you still used 999 across the pond. In Winnipeg we changed over to 911 over 40 years ago.

[eaglesdare]

back in my early military days we had to take a cpr class. but they over booked us for the adult class. a couple of us decided to volunteer over to the child cpr class. (i was a single mom at the time).

a week or two after the classes, my brother and i were sitting down eating our dinner in the dinning room, my baby was in her play pen eating one of those baby teething type cookies.

my girlfriend came in the door and looked at the baby and then looked at me and said about as calmly as anyone could "i think she is choking".
for a split second my brother and i made the deer in the headlight look at each other and then that cpr class kicked in gear. my baby WAS choking. it only took a few seconds to clear her, but had i not known the proper way, well i don't even want to think about it.

being in the military we have had several classes and i think every one should take a course. you never know when you will need it.

[Jiminsav]

OMG..I know who he is..he's the Juggernaut, B***H..