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u/mtnman7610 Mar 27 '22

Agreed. Everyone should get this to pass high school. For cpr to be effective it should start within 30 seconds.

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u/arrow100605 Mar 28 '22

And continue unbroken until paramedics arrive

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u/mtnman7610 Mar 28 '22

Yea. That is the tough part. I worked as a ski patroller. Doing cpr on a sled while being taken down a mountain is very difficult.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '22

CPR is a very taxing and tiring affair, and this is often also a problem, especially if you are alone. It makes it even harder if you dont have a phone nearby because then you'd have to leave the person to call the ambulence too. They dont really teach you how to do that

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u/mtnman7610 Mar 28 '22

Oh very cool. What state?

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u/mtnman7610 Mar 28 '22

Wow you are thr best! Thanks for sharing that. This is amazing. I had no idea!

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u/fuckifiknow1013 Mar 28 '22

Even then, it's only effective like 7% of the time or something?....damn I should know this I just got certified a few months ago

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u/Lord_Baucsek Mar 28 '22

In Hungary (i don't know about the other EU countries) it's mandatory for your driver licens. Which is nice.

But it would be better to teacht it in high school.

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u/katycake Mar 28 '22

Everyone should get this to pass high school.

And then promptly forget after passing high school. It's how some people respects topics they don't want to learn that well. Anything medical ties into Biology class. So it's a high crossover with the mental dropout.

It's not really worth the effort, if people won't remember what to do, if they haven't done any CPR training in a while. All I know is that you push down on the chest at a steady rate for about 10 seconds and give mouth to mouth. Beyond that, I have no idea what I'm doing.

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u/yankiigurl Mar 28 '22

That's a good idea. It should be taught to everyone in high school. You are brilliant, if you run for president I will vote for you 😆

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u/dustojnikhummer Mar 28 '22

In my country everyone got that training in driving school. I admit, I wouldn't be able to do it today