If proper CPR involves compressing the chest so much such that the ribcage might break - doesnt that breakage risks a bone puncturing the heart?

  • Rikudou_SageA
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    11 months ago

    Yes. Defibrillator is useless if your heart has stopped.

    • @Labonnie@feddit.de
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      811 months ago

      That’s incorrect.

      Someone might be not breathing for a number of reasons. Most likely however, when you find them unconscious & not breathing on the street it’s for cardiac reasons. And then a defibrillator is the one best treatment for that (if the heart has a shockable rhythm that is).