The world’s most famous life-saving rescue technique is “too good to be true,” according to a disturbing new investigation.
CPR’s potential side effects are so bad that many patients — andThis is a far cry from CPR’s wider reputation in medical circles, in which it’s seen as a simple “two-handed” method that makes death “manipulable” by humans, according to sociologist and CPR expert Stefan Timmermans, NPR reported., CPR became the de facto method of restarting the heart in cardiac arrest patients, with official CPR classes becoming available to the public in the 1970s.
that CPR was seen as so crucial that refusing to administer it might appear “equivalent to refusing to extend a rope to someone drowning,” according to the American Journal of Bioethics.was 70%, while people believe in real life that the number is north of 75%, NPR reported.These results conflicted with a 2010 study, which found that overall rate of survival from out-of-hospital cardiac was 7.6%, and had been that way for three decades, NPR reported.
Meanwhile, the post-CPR survival rate for in-hospital treatment was only marginally better, clocking in at about 17%, while fewer than 2% of patients with preexisting conditions such as cancer or heart, lung, and liver disease were revived via CPR. In general, older patients fare worse as well. “This is the truest of emergencies and you give people the simplest of procedures,” Timmermans told NPR of the “too good to be true” technique.
Not to mention that getting revived via CPR doesn’t preclude patients from experiencing life-threatening complications — some of which stem from the pressure required for its application.
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