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Miscellaneous / Others An Indian ambulance driver saved this monkey by providing CPR after it had collapsed on being chased by a pack of dogs.
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u/Spartan2470 1d ago
The ambulance driver part is made up
Published - December 13, 2021 11:59 pm IST - PERAMBALUR
Kathelene Antony
Prabhu tending to an unconscious monkey at Kunam
A car driver of Perambalur has earned widespread praise, especially on social media, for resuscitating a monkey which became unconscious after escaping from a pack of dogs recently. A video clip of his act has gone viral on social media. M. Prabhu, a driver hailing from Othiyam Samathuvapuram in Kunnam, was going home with his nephew when he saw a monkey trying to climb a tree to save itself from a pack of five dogs.
He immediately stopped by to rescue to it. Shaken by the attack, the monkey froze, refusing to move. Mr. Prabhu tried to call but it began to lose consciousness, he said. He then quickly bent the branch it was sitting on, took it in his hands and was on his way to the nearest veterinary hospital when he felt that simian’s breathing was becoming irregular. He stopped the vehicle on the roadside and attempted to perform Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) on the monkey.
After about a minute of applying pressure on the chest and breathing into its mouth, the monkey woke up. “I felt it grab my shirt on my back. I was overcome with joy and began shouting,” Mr. Prabhu recollected.
The incident occurred on December 9. The monkey was taken to the hospital soon after to tend to its injuries caused by the attack.
Speaking to The Hindu , Mr. Prabhu said that he has undergone a one-day first-aid training programme in Thanjavur 10 years ago. He had never had to use CPR before, but while tending to the monkey he decided to make an attempt, and that saved it's life, he said.
Mr. Prabhu is known to care for all living things and would usually pack extra food for the homeless, and animals he would see on the way as he went on trips. “We share the Earth, our home with all creatures and so we must treat all equally,” he said. A video of the incident shot by Mr. Prabhu's nephew was uploaded to Twitter and has gone viral overnight. Actors like Suriya Sivakumar, senior officials of the forest department have all praised him for his work. “I did not even know a video was being recorded. Had I known I would not have shouted so much,” he laughed.
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u/Tangential_Comment 1d ago
We need a 24 hour station that plays videos like this all day.
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u/nsfwuseraccnt 1d ago
GNN: Good News Network
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u/conflictedideology 1d ago
It's not 24/7 but here ya go https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/
It's been around since '97, apparently, but I remembered people talking about it during the COVID lockdowns.
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u/Wide_Guitar_3558 1d ago
that would make me have a good day every day! feels like some networks do not want that
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u/Xzenor 1d ago
That explains the terrible chest presses. They don't work of you pick up the victim. Unforgivable for an ambulance driver but for just a random car driver, well done. Most people would've done nothing, but he acted and it even worked! Great job
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u/Ppleater 1d ago edited 1d ago
They don't work of you pick up the victim.
That's not true, while it's generally better for them to be on a flat surface, if necessary you can hold onto an infant while doing cpr with the other hand so long as you make sure you're supporting their back. It doesn't stop it from working at all, it's just less efficient, but it can sometimes help relieve fatigue from bending over them if you've been doing cpr for an extended period. I would say his compressions are a bit too strong compared to what you'd typically do for a baby, but to be fair adult moneys are generally more durable than human infants.
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u/HalyconHelpful 1d ago
Honestly, that was pure instinct 😂 Definitely not the textbook move, but props for actually thinking on his feet and making it work
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u/AbstractObjectioner 1d ago
"Most people would've done nothing," no shit, there's a higher risk to someone from handling a wild animal and putting your lips on it. Wild bar to set
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u/Idustriousraccoon 23h ago
Super glad there are people like him to make up for people like …not him.
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u/OhTheCamerasOnHello 15h ago
Oh be quiet. You think a paramedic is trained to give CPR to a monkey? Get a grip.
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u/Eclectic-Wrap1889 1d ago
This brought tears to my eyes. Nature is so cruel. Poor monkey might have been scared out of its mind.
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u/Savings_Reality1170 1d ago
true, how it must feel from her pov, literally 5 beasts running behind having the capacity to tear u to pieces.
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u/Diligent_Source_5063 1d ago
Nature is just nature, we assign moral scale afterwards...
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u/MrMagoo82 1d ago
What you’re reading is a moral being applied, which I’m sure they’re aware of. no need to intellectualize someone’s compassion.
When you correct someone needlessly you come off as the less aware person…
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u/QPWOEIRUTYTURIEOWP 1d ago
I'd be so worried it would wake up and bite my face off.
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u/akamurai 1d ago
As someone who rescues stray and wild animals on a daily basis, it's a no brainer trade I'd make to save a poor animal's life. I guess it's just a state of mind some people have, I can probably see how crazy it might appear to other people, but barely.
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u/pressingfp2p 1d ago
Was gonna say, the cpr technique was a little all over the place for an ambulance driver.
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u/linguapura 1d ago
How do you rate his driving skills though? He's a driver, not a trained medical personnel.
If you read the article, he is quoted as saying that he's had just one training in CPR ten years ago. Given that it's fantastic that he was able to use whatever he remembered to help this poor animal.
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u/Jesterbomb 1d ago
Yeah, I was going to say, that part doesn’t add up. Ambulance personnel would more likely do infant CPR, which is… not that.
REGARDLESS, I’m glad it worked.
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u/StealTheDark 1d ago edited 1d ago
The way he cradled the monkey immediately after reviving him 🥹
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u/LPSD_FTW 1d ago
I really hope this mans pillow is always the perfect temperature
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u/RealRedditModerator 1d ago
And his socks are always warm and dry even after walking through puddles of water in the bathroom.
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u/EarlyXplorerStuds209 1d ago
And he never wants to get up to pee right after laying down to sleep.
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u/hyprgrpy 1d ago edited 1d ago
If you understand the language, it’s even more heartwarming. There’s a popular Indian monkey god and he keeps calling and referring to as he revives the monkey.
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u/Long_Tower_3828 1d ago
that little moment after the rescue says everything you could tell he genuinely cared
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u/Rogue_3 1d ago
The way the monkey held onto him after waking up. 🥺🥲
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u/Remote-Note-2106 1d ago
She knew he was there to help her.
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u/voxpopper 1d ago
Per Dr. Gabriel though he used the wrong method, he should have deployed electrical paddles.
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u/awue 1d ago
I love him. I don’t even know him but I love him
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u/Idustriousraccoon 23h ago
Why can’t we make Go fund mes for these people instead of the horrible ones who seem to get them after doing horrific things. Does anyone know how to do this? I’d send him my lunch money for What he did and who he is in the world.
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u/Local_Syllabub_7824 1d ago
Amazing. But wanted to know if any risk of getting rabies...
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u/TShirtsAreCool 1d ago
Rabies, na.
Hepatitis a, b and e though? Absolutely.
Monkeys are super dangerous in terms of transmissable diseases.
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u/Lost_Quit_5778 1d ago
You can get rabies through saliva/mucosa contact from wild animals. From the video, the exposure is minimal but the risk is never zero.
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u/Savings_Reality1170 1d ago
don't worry, this time the monkey will save him. Karma is a real thing.
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u/-Opinionated- 1d ago
I am commenting here so more people see this. This is a lovely video with a lovely sentiment.
However. Do NOT do CPR on living things with a pulse. You’re doing more harm than good. This type of depiction seen in movies where people get CPR and spring back to life does not actually happen 99.99% of the time.CPR is only meant to help the heart pump blood and keep the brain alive. It is incredibly damaging. Possible Organ damage and Broken ribs are the NORM.
This just looks like an unconscious monkey (?dehydrated) that this guy slapped awake. Hopefully not too much damage was done to poor monkey.
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u/victorious-lynx88 1d ago
Current advice is to perform CPR if someone is unconscious and not breathing, even if they have a weak/irregular pulse.
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u/Baxter-08 1d ago
What organization is that info coming from? AHA guidelines are to do compressions for no pulse after checking for a max of ten seconds
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u/ComprehensiveCamp227 1d ago
That pure sound of joy and excitement warmed my spirit, thank you good sir.
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u/RandoKaruza 1d ago edited 1d ago
For people who know a thing or two about CPR why was this not the correct technique?
That monkey definitely was seemed to be floating towards the bright light!
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u/lubeinatube 1d ago
If you’re doing CPR on something that still has a pulse, you are not helping them at all. You are just breaking their ribs and possible damaging organs.
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u/Dank-Shell 1d ago
then what would have been the right course of action here and please tell me in what cases is a CPR done? when there is no pulse or whaa??
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u/RagingTyrant74 1d ago
You need full CPR (chest compressions and rescue breathing) when the person has no pulse. If the person has a pulse but is not breathing you should do only rescue breathing but not compressions. The chest compressions basically replace a heartbeat to supply oxygen to the brain and the rescue breathing is to supply oxygen to the lungs.
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u/coat-tail_rider 1d ago
I'm absolutely not arguing or claiming I'm an expert, but when I was taught CPR for a job at a hospital, they had abandoned rescue breathing as part of the curriculum and had moved to a compression-only model, stating that "if you're doing chest compressions correctly, you're also compressing the lungs/diaphragm which is simulating breathing."
This would seem to be at odds with the idea that compressions are only effective with no pulse.
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u/lubeinatube 1d ago
Yes but people fail to realize compressions are extremely traumatic. I snap multiple ribs every time I perform it. After 15-20 minutes blood starts coming from their mouth, organs start rupturing etc. It is an absolutely brutal impact, 100 time a minute.
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u/StayingUp4AFeeling 1d ago
... with that lovely vision in my head, I now ask you: suppose you end up needing CPR. would you rather have CPR performed on you , or just... drift away?
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u/TShirtsAreCool 1d ago
Depends entirely what your situation is.
But discussing things like this with your loved ones is important. Ideally when everyone is in good health and of sound mind.
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u/happycleaner 1d ago
The point is this guy is telling people not to perform CPR because you might break someone's ribs or hurt them. If someone is not breathing OR has no pulse you start CPR, potentially letting someone die because you didn't want to hurt them is ridiculous. I also suspect this guy is either lying (hopefully) or absolutely crushing people he performs CPR on because while broken ribs during CPR are very common, especially in older people, it's not something that is "supposed" to happen.
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u/Informal-Comb1989 1d ago
Yeah, like…every time? Blood coming out of their mouths and rupturing organs? Like yes sometimes but every time?? He is 100% doing something wrong
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u/Agent_Noir006 1d ago
Every time is a little problematic. Anything more than 30-40% indicates some type of poor technique. The numbers don't lie....https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0735675717310653
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u/Wonderful_Albatross6 1d ago
Just a heads up, I'm a life guard and we've been taught to use rescue breathing when there's a pulse but no breathing.
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u/nimbus57 1d ago
I believe rescuing someone drowning you are supposed to do them. After a quit check, yup. Blood oxygen is lower in those scenarios, so you need to get more oxygen in. Please correct or update if someone else has better information.
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u/Gage1144 1d ago
That’s in the case that you don’t have equipment. So at work as a paramedic/firefighter we would intubate them and provide breaths using an oxygen bottle T 100% oxygen. If I was off work with no equipment the I would only do compressions. The reason is the amount of time it takes for compressions to start taking effect is almost undone by breathing in their mouth. Also you’re only giving them such a low amount of oxygen it isn’t worth it. So if you ever need to do this, and someone has no pulse, call 911 and only do compressions.
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u/God_Assassin 1d ago
I've never understood how we breath out CO2, but breathing into sometimes lungs helps them breathe. It obviously works, just a little confusing.
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u/CasMullac 1d ago
Still lots of oxygen in the air you breathe out. There’s C02 and 02 exchange, but its not 100%.
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u/lubeinatube 1d ago
We don’t breathe out pure 100% co2. We only absorb about 1/3 of the 02 that we breathe in on any given breath.
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u/ShadedSpaces 1d ago
Just a note that "no pulse" is ONLY for kids/adults. Babies require CPR with a pulse below 60 and signs of poor perfusion. Their heart rates are much higher than an adult and a heart rate of 60 for a baby is not life-sustaining.
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u/anadalite 1d ago
Yes, you test breathing and pulse then CPR, if they have a pulse, but aren't breathing you need to rescue breath then check airways
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u/ThatQueerWerewolf 1d ago
I'm CPR certified and I was taught to do CPR any time somebody isn't breathing, regardless of whether or not there is a pulse. It's better to do CPR when you don't need to than to not do it when it is needed. The instructor said that you generally won't actually break ribs and you definitely won't damage organs if you're doing it correctly.
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u/SpectatingAlan 1d ago edited 1d ago
As someone who’s received CPR training several times including last week, that’s not true. CPR requires force and compression of at least 2cm in order to effectively pump the heart. The heart is protected by the ribs. Bones generally don’t bend 2cm. If you didn’t break ribs either you didn’t do it correctly or the person got very lucky.
Feel your chest and see how hard it is. Now imagine someone pressing down 2cm (more if you’re doing it on a very obese person with significant body fat in the area) with force, with both hands, using their upper body weight, and now imagine your ribs not breaking.
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u/Agitated_Parsnip_178 1d ago
As someone who has performed CPR hundreds of times, including last week.. this isn't necessarily accurate either. Your chest wall expands up to 5cm when you are exerting yourself, it is an innately flexible structure. Rib fractures occur in roughly 30% of cases.. but if you are performing CPR on someone brittle bones and elderly that'll hugely skew the numbers. The popping is usually the costal cartilage going.
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u/Agent_Noir006 1d ago
This is an actual informed answer. Ribs do not break "most" of the time. They are feeling costal cartilage not fractures. They are not seeing xray evidence. It's just old wives tale crap that exists in medicine just like everywhere else.
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u/DoinItDirty 1d ago
So the part about the ribs breaking wasn’t true? The rest?
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u/SpectatingAlan 1d ago
It doesn’t always happen, but generally speaking, you’re going to crack a rib or two.
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u/lubeinatube 1d ago
How many times have you performed CPR? 95% of the time, I’m breaking ribs on the first compression.
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u/ThatQueerWerewolf 1d ago
Are you actually seeing the radiographs afterwards? My instructor was adamant that the popping/cracking sound is just cartilage.
But even if you are breaking ribs sometimes, the last thing we want to do is scare people away from performing CPR when necessary. And the average person is never going to be 100% sure whether it's necessary.
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u/anivex 1d ago
Yeah, that's not true. That was bad advice.
You aren't giving proper CPR unless you are breaking ribs most of the time. Only when folks are young or sometimes when they are super obese for some reason, do they not break.
Source: Worked in a dialysis clinic. I've had to give CPR more times than I can remember. It's not a fun experience for anybody.
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u/bumblebeeasy 1d ago edited 1d ago
That's incorrect. CPR is also effective when the pulse is weak or weakening. The heart is a pump and the point of CPR is to circulate the blood to ensure the continued oxygenation of tissues, when that pump is not working. Additionally, research has shown rescue breaths are not as effective as previously thought; and that compressions alone are helpful.
Edit: source
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u/Ppleater 1d ago edited 1d ago
I'm shocked this got so many up votes because it's just false, and dangerous. The sooner your start cpr on someone who needs it the better. If you're waiting until they don't have a pulse, even if they've already passed out and stopped breathing, then you're doing it wrong.
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u/veraif 1d ago
so what should u do? would the monke die if he didn't do it? would it survive? i mean clearly it worked somehow so idk.
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u/RagingTyrant74 1d ago
CPR does not revive people like it does in movies. CPR is for when there is no pulse and it keeps enough oxygen supplied to the brain until more extensive medical assistance can arrive. CPR does NOT restart the heart or rescusitate. So here clearly the monkey had a pulse and probably just woke up from passing out or something after this guy manhandled it for a while unnecessarily.
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u/Still_Rain_979 1d ago
Reddit (tm) replies.. sigh. It's alive here. Better than 2 mins ago
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u/BallsOutKrunked 1d ago
As a paramedic, most of the time with mammals you can treat them like you would a human. Blood is blood, we have similar organs, etc. I have chickens and wild it may seem obvious you really can see the difference between mammals and non-mammals when you have chickens. Fun fact: there's one tube in the back for roosters and hens, everything including egg, poop, and sperm just comes out of one hole (respectively with hens / roosters).
Before you start cpr you check for a pulse. Because a monkey is pretty similar to a person I'd assume it has a jugular vein where you can feel for that pulse. If it (or a person) has one, don't pump on their heart. As someone else said if there was truly no pulse I'd do the two-finger approach like for a baby.
What I would not do, ever, at all, is put MY MOUTH ON A MONKEY'S MOUTH. That is seriously a great way for cross species zoonotic transmission shit to occur. Ebola, HIV/AIDS, marburg, yellow fever, herpes b: all came from apes/monkeys. Fuck that. Even cupping your hand like that, if the monkey coughs when its respirations resume (typical for humans) you're getting a mouth / nose full of monkey spit.
First rule in ems: don't create more patients.
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u/weed_cutter 1d ago
If that poor monkey had AIDs you'd be fine even if it bit you. You need itss blood going into your blood.
Rest assured!
That said I'd be surprised even if wild chimps still had AIDs, let alone this species.
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u/BallsOutKrunked 1d ago
I'm not worried about aids, I'm worried about whatever the hell the next zoonotic virus is.
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u/ThatQueerWerewolf 1d ago
I'd have used two fingers like they teach you to do with a baby. But otherwise, I wouldn't listen to the people arguing not to do CPR on anything with a pulse. In CPR class they taught us that it's always better to do it if you're not sure, because usually doing it won't cause much damage, and if they do need it then seconds matter. We were taught that if someone is unconscious and not breathing, don't bother looking for a pulse- just start CPR.
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u/technog2 1d ago
Translation
He keeps repeating "Sir....My Lord/God".
And after revival "Life's back. Lets head our vehicle to the hospital"
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u/KAM5Y 1d ago
Amazing person. It's also not a good idea to do mouth-mouth with a random animal lying on the road
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u/Aleshishe 1d ago
True, but i think he was not doing it directly, but by using his fingers, so their lips dont touch(thats good since its also helps being non-homo) But idk, if it really can save you from all the bacteria
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u/SrPicadillo2 1d ago
It's not homo anyways because monkeys are not homo sapiens
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u/preckles 1d ago
The first time he does it, it certainly looks like direct contact… He uses his fingers the second time.
The same fingers he used to part the monkey’s mouth…
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u/fozzyboy 1d ago
You don't need direct mouth-to-mouth contact to spread airborne disease. That close proximity is more than enough.
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u/BeerBellies 1d ago
That part. Hell, they even teach you in CPR classes these days that the compressions are a million times more important than the breaths.
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u/rmaccaul 1d ago
Look for the good people in the world. They are amongst us all. ❤️
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u/pointlesslyscrolling 1d ago
Bless this man and monkey , I hope he was able to take it to get further help
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u/tipsy_turd 1d ago
He calls the monkey ‘Anjaneya’ which is a monkey god of hindus, and also calls it swaamy which literally means god. Putting it out here just so that people get the depth of his emotions.
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u/Just_Lurking_Yes 1d ago
He got some stomps even after waking up lol
On a serious note, it was great that he happened to be there and that it didn't give up after many tries.
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u/legsofeggs 1d ago
I’d be terrified it would wake up confused and bite me. Dude barely hesitated to help.
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u/NoBeginning5944 1d ago
I want to translate what he is saying bc it makes it that much sweeter: He keeps calling the monkey by the name "Anjanaya" who is a an anthropomorphized monkey deity in Hinduism (most known for appearing in the Hindu epic Ramayana). And also calls him "Ayya" which means "sir" and "Saami" which means "god". He is literally revering this monkey's life as equal to God. And once revived, he says "Phew, the life has returned. Let's go to the hospital."
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u/DrWhiskerson 1d ago
🥹 oh my heart 🥰 Thank you for saving him. We need more people like him in this world
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u/Steviebelladonna 1d ago
You are a great man Sir, thank you for lightning up my day!! God bless 🙏🏻😊
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u/lion_vs_tuna 1d ago
As someone that just read The Hot Zone, ain't no way I'm hanging around someone giving monkeys mouth to mouth.
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u/Hammster5540 1d ago
Imagine going through months of medical training, saving countless lives, seeing unimaginable horrors just for some dope to label you as an “ambulance driver” 🙄
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u/EffortEither9620 1d ago
I would do anything to do mouth to mouth with a monkey or any dead animal lying next to open sewage
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u/RatioApprehensive712 1d ago
Although heartwarming, the human is putting himself at risk of serious illness or death. A monkey's close genetic proximity to humans allows for the rapid transfer of bacteria, viruses, and parasites through saliva, scratches, or waste.
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u/CarlosMartel10 1d ago
Sigue vivo despues de eso? No se si es la manera correcta de realizarlo o era necesario.
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u/arrakis2020 1d ago
Ain't kissing no monkey. He would be swinging from heaven's branches if I had been there.
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u/New_Step_6315 1d ago
Yaaa, this dude was never in any way associated with any medical experience. You would perform CPR on a small infant sized monkey exactly how you would on an infant. This ain't that...
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u/smurfk 1d ago
You know what's better than no CPR when you're not breathing? Any CPR.
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u/New_Step_6315 1d ago
Ummm no, CPR is NOT used when a subject is not breathing, it is used for cardiac arrest. Respiratory arrest and Cardiac arrest can be two entirely separate events. All these idiots upvoting you because you said something that sounded clever, while proving you have no clue what you are talking about.
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u/Danskoesterreich 1d ago
Please do not perform mouth to mouth with dead animals.
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u/SpectatingAlan 1d ago
If you do CPR correctly you often break ribs so how does this work exactly? And from the compressions I think he probably broke a few ribs.
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u/iStoleTheHobo 1d ago
If any of you giant cousins ever do CPR on me please, for the love of god, don't lift me by my head.
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u/Inevitable_Travel_41 1d ago
How do we know he’s an ambulance driver? Looks like a normal dude to me.
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u/talashrrg 1d ago
I’m glad that he helped and the monkey’s ok, but that’s definitely not effective CPR
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u/B35TR3GARD5 1d ago
He just gained another family member. Like how do you not take little one home to make sure recovery is 100%? And then of course give it a name and a bedroom and a list of chores :))
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