Is it true that for CPR to work you have to do it so hard that often the patient's ribs are broken?
Sorry if it's a completely ridiculous question, but i'm sure that i read somewhere the opinion of a medical person who said it wasn't worthwhile for an ordinary, unqualified person to try and attempt CPR as they would never perform it vigorously enough and i've always wondered if this was correct.
You do have to depress the chest several inches, to 'squash' the heart between the front and back of the ribs enough to pump the blood out of the heart and about 100 compressions a minute which is pretty good going. None of compressions ever done on TV are a good example of CPR!
And yep, ribs can be and are broken!
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You do have to depress the chest several inches, to 'squash' the heart between the front and back of the ribs enough to pump the blood out of the heart and about 100 compressions a minute which is pretty good going. None of compressions ever done on TV are a good example of CPR!
And yep, ribs can be and are broken!
I was thinking that too. If It were me, I'd be all over the place. But then again, that's just me :cool: