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Originally Posted by RookWV I've had the unfortunate chance of performing CPR on an eldery fellow on the golf course and let me tell you it's NOTHING like you see on TV, that is one of the most physically tiring activities you have ever done. Not to mention the mental tiredness that occurs.
In that case I did it for what seemed like an hour but I think it was more like 10-15min.....and sadly unsuccessfully. |
I gave a dead guy (he was about cold when we made the scene) CPR for about 20 minutes one night. I started CPR in the apartment, and continued in the back of an ambulance on the way to the hospital. He passed anyway, but at least I tried.
Like RookWV said, it ain't like it looks on TV. Ribs crack . . . the guy's nasty-a**ed cigarette breath kept emanating from the corpse . . . it was pretty sad. He had died in the middle of the night because he was poor and something happened to his medical coverage to where he didn't get his insulin.
Interesting thing, though . . . we had him hooked to the heart monitor (it recommended CPR as opposed to shock), and as we (my partner Curtis and I) were giving him CPR (me the chest compressions and Curt-O pumped the ambu bag), you could hear (and see) the heartbeats register on the monitor. At least I knew I was effective!
Another spooky thing is . . . I SWEAR the guy's corpse started warming up while we were doing CPR. I swear it. My best guess is that, as the body began to receive oxygen again, some of the life processes began generating internal heat again. Spooky.
I knew he was toast as soon as we entered the bedroom. Poor guy.
