You are not reading my point.

Good for you. I thought this required a bit much myself, which was my point. Especially when it would have been the work of moments to do something a little bit more realistic.

I've got it!

The techniques Rory taught her were out of date because he qualified in 1990!

Actually they didn't (Lee Ross' teeth were all bad). I can't believe my lovely Kenny has turned bad.

Generally, I don't expect these things to be right (maybe in a medical drama, but not here).

Anyway, I don't know how to give CPR, but I would have given Rory CPR without any questions asked.

I dunno, that Amy gets lots of things wrong.

Last series (young) Amelia got it for boiling baked beans, this series it is incorrect CPR.

Someone send the girl back to school!

Unforgivable!

So your're a first aider and a medical professional.

Being a medical professional does not make you knowledgable in first aid, as well you know!

I am a first aid instructor and have been 20years for SJA. I have never known any case where a rib cage is broken in CPR, it just does not happen in properly administered CPR.

And that web page simply says that bty performing CPR with more that 125 pound of pressure can increase the risk of fracture...any pressure can increase the risk of fracture depending on the circumstances, but this is not par for the course.

Bottom line, you do not have to break someone's rib cage to prove that CPR is done correctly. It is a myth that this happens, and it happens in only very small minority of cases when there are specific reasons for it to happen.

I am leaving the thread, but only because its getting silly in here!

I heard he was pretending to be bad to get the undercover scoop. Also, Colin asked if he could sneak back some of the treasure.


To be fair, Rory does seem to give her only about two minutes of explanation and otherwise seem willing to trust that she can figure it out from having seen movies.

Link here

You should leave, you are embarrassing yourself

I have to agree... I wasn't sure for a second if it was a joke or not... it seems it isn't

It seems we reach a new low on here with every episode that airs

Prisoner Qui will vacate the human thread or the human thread will be incinerated!

Reads like a Points Of View complaint , Karen was not portraying a trained medical professional or even a first aider, but a woman, who like most people, probably has no CPR training, panicking about her drowning husband.

A person who has seen CPR performed on TV might well in time be required to perform it in a dangerous situation, even if they have no other training or knowledge of it. They won't be copying Amy's entirely, no, but the show gave the impression that it was the 'correct' way to do it, despite being quite fundamentally different than 'proper' CPR - showing incorrect CPR in place of 'proper' CPR only decreases the amount of people who can undertake it correctly in real life. How is that not a bad thing?





I wasn't saying it was inconsistent with her character and situation, I was saying it was irresponsible of the show. Half the replies seem to be 'defending' the the actions of a fictional character - which is odd, because it was a clear production decision, this has nothing to do with whether it's believable that she would be bad at it. Believe it or not I'm not attacking a fictional character, I'm criticizing a production choice from a very real person somewhere.

When I watched the Eleventh Hour, I didn't question the Doctor writing a virus on a mobile phone, let alone being able to distribute it to all systems in the world instantly, let alone distribute it to things that don't even have a network connection. I took that as artistic license.

Karen Gillan is not going to pound Arthur Darvill's ribcage so hard that there's a chance of it breaking, or cut off his air supply while breathing into his lungs. Nor is the Doctor going to show the source code he developed on-screen.

It's a fiction designed to progress the story.

The difference is, I don't expect them to know how to write a virus on a phone or to spend the time necessary to do the research. However there would have been someone on set that knew first aid so I don't think they would have had to have gone far to find someone to ask if it looked right. A bit lazy?

This thread should have been called "Will someone please think of the children!!!"

To be fair, it was a bit silly from the start.

"Fictional TV show doesn't show CPR 100% accurately!"

Just sayin'!

I thought you'd left this discussion? Any other wildly inaccurate medical advice to share with us?

Coincidentally enough I have already said thats not the reason why I have problems with her CPR.

**incinerates thread**

Ja88ed!

Yep, don't argue with SilentNate, he's a Medical Professional don't you know! We may as well all pack up and just hail SilentNate as the all knowing Oracle.

I left the thread because it was getting ridiculous, I just thought I'd see what other irrelevant comments were being posted. The thead is the forum eqivalent of a road crash.

I stand by my previous posts and maintaim that your posts are very pompous. Who cares what you do for a living.

Having looked through the links you've offered, as well as what other people have provided, I don't think either of you are in a position to be taking the high ground.

She.

I may be pompous buy you are very wrong