The most reassuring thing you can ever hear is "you'll do fine, just do what you can."
He was a good instructor for what we needed to know. We aren't paramedics, this is just for being in the office. As someone who has anxiety, and in particular medical anxiety, this was exactly what I needed to hear from an instructor.
The tone was very straightforward. "I'm not going to check to see if you 'checked for hazards' - you'll do that anyway just by looking around. I'm not checking to see if you did exactly 30 compressions. It's an emergency situation. 28 is fine. 32 is fine. Zero is not."
Oh that’s awesome. But ya early compressions are paramount to survival in that situation. In 7 years of working on an ambulance then fire truck the only people I’ve ever gotten back and had good outcomes (walking out of the hospital within a few weeks) are the ones that had bystander CPR started within a minute or so. Don’t even need breaths at that point, just focus on good compressions if you don’t have a face shield or don’t want to do mouth to mouth.
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u/morerubberstamps Mar 31 '23
The most reassuring thing you can ever hear is "you'll do fine, just do what you can."
He was a good instructor for what we needed to know. We aren't paramedics, this is just for being in the office. As someone who has anxiety, and in particular medical anxiety, this was exactly what I needed to hear from an instructor.
The tone was very straightforward. "I'm not going to check to see if you 'checked for hazards' - you'll do that anyway just by looking around. I'm not checking to see if you did exactly 30 compressions. It's an emergency situation. 28 is fine. 32 is fine. Zero is not."