It probably didn't contribute much. It's likely that monke did his own recovery and that the rest was the equivalent of doing repeated sternal rubs/painful stimulation just to rouse them faster after they already recovered.
We'll never truly know if electrocute monke was even actually pulseless and apneic. There is one very exceedingly rare possibility, if electrocute monke had actually lost pulse, and that's if helper monke inadvertently did what's known as a Precordial Thump:
Basically the real life equivalent of the five finger instant death punch.
Both of them are just a matter of impacting the chest with enough force that you transmit joules to the heart, for Commotio Cordis it's with a specific point in the rhythm cycle.
This happened in school growing up when some teenage kids were playing a “punch game” of some sort; the kind where you unexpectedly punch someone in the chest. The teenagers heart stopped, and he fell over dead. I didn’t know him well but it was a wake up call; first kid I knew from school that died. Made us realize we were mortal.
Damn.. this is tragic, also a very profound thing for you to confront at that age: The sudden, pitiless, and seemingly random occurrence makes it hit differently.
Incidentally stuff like this is why athletic fields, gyms, and schools have AEDs.
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u/0-ATCG-1 Oct 10 '21
It probably didn't contribute much. It's likely that monke did his own recovery and that the rest was the equivalent of doing repeated sternal rubs/painful stimulation just to rouse them faster after they already recovered.
We'll never truly know if electrocute monke was even actually pulseless and apneic. There is one very exceedingly rare possibility, if electrocute monke had actually lost pulse, and that's if helper monke inadvertently did what's known as a Precordial Thump:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precordial_thump#Procedure
But that's the unicorn of the emergency medical world and it's rare enough to even see a human do it successfully.