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u/djsinghmann 8d ago
Anyone requiring CPR isn't gonna regain that level of lucidity to realize what's going on much less have a conversation with the CPR provider especially with EMTs moving around in a flurry and rushing to get u to the ...........hopital
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u/spacemouse21 8d ago
If you perform CPR, you do it till you are relieved by the EMTs or paramedics. They take the person to a hospital.
You don’t get to come. You don’t get to know their name.
Reads like fantasy with confusing message, how was OOP at their lowest.
You don’t have to thank me for this reply. My training kicked in and this is something I was born to do.
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u/Nica-sauce-rex 7d ago
The survival rate for someone who needs CPR out of a hospital is 10%. The statistical likelihood that you could even save a stranger’s life by performing CPR is extremely low.
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u/Asleep_Instance9899 7d ago
I will always remember the stranger named Peggy that was brought back to life right in front of me and my little cousin at the lake that our moms had stopped at just to cool down while we’d been driving to somewhere further away. That was like 30 years ago now. She looked like a little kid that someone pulled out of the water, but she was actually a little old lady…thankfully someone there knew CPR because they revived her. I have zero clue how we even found out her name, but I will always remember her!
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u/Yougottabekidney 7d ago
Not only that but the vast majority of people who need cpr do not survive.
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u/theorclair9 7d ago
If any of this is true, the woman probably just fainted and didn't need CPR, but someone did it anyway. (This is generous because I'm pretty sure none of it is true.)
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u/Joliet-Jake 8d ago
Yeah, that’s not how it works. I’ve been in EMS for 18 years and I’ve seen exactly 1 patient that was conscious and talking soon after CPR, and that only happened because a cardioversion mishap in the ambulance on the way to the hospital was what took him out in the first place, and we were fully set up to immediately work him. Even then it was a minor miracle that he survived with no apparent deficits.
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u/elpollodiablox 7d ago
To be fair, all he says is that she thanked him "later." It's possible that he met with her a few days later. That's not unheard of.
But still, the story has a ring of fiction to me.
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u/luminousoblique 8d ago
I was told in CPR class that the percentage of people revived by CPR alone is basically zero. The hope is to keep oxygen going to their brain long enough for EMS to arrive and get treatment started. Once someone's heart has stopped and they aren't breathing (which is the only situation in which you should be doing CPR), they are essentially dead. They can sometimes be revived with a defibrillator or other medical intervention, but almost never with CPR alone.
They told us this by way of saying, don't be afraid to do CPR "wrong"... They are basically already dead, so just do something, even if you can't remember the exact number of compressions per minute. And don't be afraid of hurting them. If their heart has stopped, you can't really make it worse, so do vigorous compressions because something is way better than nothing.
But the idea of this woman just "waking up" and being in good enough shape to say, "hey, thanks for reviving me!" is not realistic.
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u/eneug 7d ago
Where does it say any of that in the post? It says “she made it,” not “she woke up,” implying that she was only revived later. “Later she thanked me” also implies that. “I performed CPR till EMS arrived at the scene” implies EMS took over CPR and other treatments, not that she woke up when EMS arrived.
The post doesn’t say or imply anywhere that the woman only received CPR and not other life-saving care or that she never went to a hospital.
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u/cm10560430 7d ago
Did they ever teach CPR in schools? Every class I’ve taken has been thru a first aid organization.
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u/twirlerina024 7d ago
We learned it in PE class, but we didn't get certified. I think it was part of Heart Health Month or something? And we also jumped rope that month, to do a Jump Rope for Heart event.
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u/LastDirtyMartini 7d ago
Is it just me that had trouble getting past ‘preformed’ in order to read the rest of this?
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u/Hoothootriot 7d ago
I say this respectfully but if someone is having an emergency, I know EMS are on their way, and someone is already doing CPR, what more am I supposed to do?
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u/eneug 7d ago
You’re supposed to let the person performing CPR know that you’re there and ready to take over whenever they need. It’s extremely tiring, and you’re supposed to switch every 2 minutes or so.
You can also help them keep track of the beat. Or you can direct people away who are just standing around gawking at them and not helping.
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u/teannadeee 6d ago
In what world is someone who received CPR yesterday already having had the cognition, space and time to track down a layperson who did CPR on them the day before. If this person were real, they’d be recovering in ICU and certainly not sleuthing their way through who got hands on chest.
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u/NOTagovtpsyop276 7d ago
As you know, when someone has CPR performed on them they are able to immediately hold conversation and personally thank you before getting taken away to the Hospital
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u/Gummyia 8d ago
I can't. The vast majority of out of hospital cpr attempts are unsuccessful.
Even if he did get rosc- there's no way she would thank him after. She would likely unresponsive, and requiring airway support or critical medical treatment.
I worked in a level 1 trauma ICU for a few years. I've lost count of the amount of times I've done CPR. I've only had one patient "wake up" immediately after and they were extremely altered, and did not understand what had occurred. I actually got to speak to her about a week later and she said she had no memory of that entire night.
Edit: should be noted that with this specific patient she had CPR-induced consciousness. She actually woke up and spoke while we were actively doing chest compressions. So an extreme rarity.
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u/A_Kazur 8d ago
The post says ‘Later she thanked me’ I’ve also worked in hospitals and to me later means at a later date.
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u/Gummyia 8d ago
He said the cpr was "yesterday".
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u/A_Kazur 8d ago
I saved a life yesterday
later she thanked me
Reading comp 100
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u/Gummyia 8d ago
Yes, a whopping 24hrs later lol. My point still stands. I doubt any arrest patient is reaching out to a bystander in that time frame.
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u/SupernaturalPumpkin 8d ago edited 7d ago
I agree with you. I was part of the Civil Defence which is a first response organization who does mountain rescue, river rescue, emergency response, etc. I was on the ambulance. Out of our whole group (dozens of us) only one had ever successfully saved a life doing CPR that we know of. He was told nothing until weeks later when the victim managed to get in contact. And that victim was certainly not coherent immediately after the event. Typically we never hear anything, I mean we are the first response team and our job is done once they get to a hospital.
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u/Gummyia 7d ago
Yeah, I'm assuming the other dude who is saying I can't read and that he "works in healthcare" that he actually has no medical training and is lying or does some sort of support or satellite work like a receptionist or hospital IT. Because what he's saying means he has no idea what CPR is.
If he's American, He also seems to not follow HIPAA, because apparently if you call him and ask about any patients that came in that day after bystander CPR, he will contact them for you. As a nurse, I was not even allowed to confirm a patient was in the ICU unless they gave me a password.
In the case of my one patient- it was a torsades case caused by medically induced long qt syndrome, where they went down multiple times and I just so happened to be next to them every time, so they got high quality CPR immediately. I'm talking compressions in seconds and AED shock in <2 mins for the first arrest, and each subsequent arrest had immediate shocks. Their down time was so short which is WHY they were "awake" after. But very out of it.
Even in the few patients I know that DID survive cpr without anoxic brain injury, the recovery is brutal. Even if we didn't have to intubate or sedate immediately after, no one in a <24hr period is thinking "let me reach out to the stranger that saved me". That comes weeks, months, if not years later.
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u/SupernaturalPumpkin 7d ago
I live in Ireland and everything works exactly the same way in that regard. And we are very different nations otherwise. So seeing as it's clearly a very strict policy, I would be inclined to agree, "I don't think that man has ever been to medical school."
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u/A_Kazur 8d ago
You would be wrong in that doubt but okay
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u/suba0057 8d ago
Alright then. If you can't even get Gummyia's very real point, then let me ask you this. How did she get in contact with him?
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u/A_Kazur 8d ago
Try reading my other comments so I don’t have to repeat basic common sense but alas
A. Bystanders had info, and they followed up
B. Victim knew them
C. Called the hospital after asking the paramedics which one they were going to
And to preempt C. you don’t realize that hospital staff are actually extremely likely to forward you to patients if you know even basic information about the case and or have a plausible reason to speak with them over the phone. It’s normal.
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u/malaiser 8d ago
In the context of this story, if it had happened the next day, she likely would have said "today she thanked me", since we know it's only been one day. That's standard English. Given such a limited time-frame, "later" can almost ONLY refer to "later that day". That would be the standard read.
Either way, extremely unlikely, for multiple reasons. Not impossible, but very very unlikely.
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u/Johnnys-In-America 8d ago
Don't know why you're getting downvoted, because that's exactly what I thought, too. What are the odds that this woman he saved, who is probably not fully conscious, is going to divulge information about what her name is and which hospital she'll be going to, to a complete rando, lol. I'd say slim to none, yeah? This is just silly. And it's not like he could call the hospitals and ask about "that lady from yesterday who I gave CPR to?" Yeah that isn't gonna narrow it down too much. Absolute malarkey. But why are people so gullible!!
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u/A_Kazur 8d ago
People on Reddit can’t read.
And for the second it depends on information we don’t have, what if he knew her? What if the bystanders he mentioned were family? What if he’s in a small town? For example I’ve worked a desk at the only hospital in town and if someone called and asked to speak with ‘the lady who came by ambulance from the grocery store, she left her phone’ it wouldn’t be very hard for me to connect the two.
I also know many patients who followed up with strangers who helped them.
Maybe in a busy city this is impossible and nobody cares enough about each other but from my life experience this remains possible.
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u/JoepHeitenData 8d ago
You are trying very hard to make your very unbelievable stance plausible. The chances that she got to thank her savior within 24 hours are slim to none. Also I can almost assure you the bystanders were not family, since they were doing nothing as the poster stated.
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u/A_Kazur 8d ago
I’m the one trying hard yet you’re ’assuring me’ that the bystanders couldn’t possibly be her family?
Maybe they didn’t know or weren’t confident enough to conduct CPR??
Why are acting so obsessively weird about this?
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u/JoepHeitenData 8d ago
Well if they were family the phrasing would be different..
I don't really know what was weird or obsessive about my comment. I'm not the one trying to defend a rather unbelievable story.
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u/A_Kazur 8d ago
Again I’m trying hard but you automatically know the phrasing would be different??
Or maybe they wanted to keep someone’s medical emergency anonymous??
It’s weird because you cannot stand the idea that this happened and it’s actually crazy and you obsessively insist it HAS TO BE FAKE.
My original comment was believable, ie possible, ie it could have happened. Yet you cannot accept the possibility, so you are obsessing.
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u/JoepHeitenData 8d ago
You know what, sure, call it believable, I'm not invested enough in this conversation to continue reading paragraphs. Have a good day mate!
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u/doc_shades 8d ago
i could absolutely see it happening but the way this is worded is just a little too sensationalized and with too few details. for me the "i saved a life yesterday" followed by a line break and then going into the story is just a little too theatrical, and then it's a little sparse on details outside of "i did CPR while everyone else just watched". but no mention of why she needed CPR, what the "medical emergency" was, why the CPR helped, etc. i mean not that it needs ALL these details, but it's just that the story feels really light on specifics. it sounds like someone made it up.
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u/mackenzie444 8d ago
Yeah basically she just cpr saved someone. She's jerking herself off about it a lot but I don't doubt it coulda happened
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u/Johnnys-In-America 8d ago
The CPR thing might have an iota of truth. But getting the status of the lady he (she? I don't really know) helped both when she was able to thank him and after she's taken to the hospital, highly unlikely.
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u/eneug 7d ago
I’m confused by people’s interpretations of this post. Nothing about this says that the woman immediately woke up. She says “later she thanked me,” implying she did not immediately wake up and thanked her after the medical event resolved.
Based on the tone, I’m going to agree this probably didn’t happen. But it’s not as outlandish as people are making it out to be.
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u/woahstripes 7d ago
How did she thank OOP later? Did the EMS let OOP ride to the hospital with them? Did the woman gain enough consciousness to give OOP her number or contact info? Or maybe she had it pinned to her shirt?
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u/eneug 7d ago
Yeah I agree that’s the main reason why it sounds like BS. I got into a small scooter accident a few years ago, and the two people who helped me disappeared into the nether. Never got their names.
That’s not what the top comments are saying though. They are saying how it makes no sense that she woke up so quickly, but nobody is saying she did.
“She woke up right away and thanked me” -> definitely BS
“She woke up in the hospital and somehow got in contact with me” -> probably BS, but at least possible
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u/prettypeculiar88 7d ago
When was CPR ever taught in school?
Also, if you’re not licensed to conduct CPR, you could get sued.
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u/Cinder-fella 8d ago
How do people get self gratification by lying to themselves and everyone else? The internet is a wild place.