Do you know CPR?

[Narz]

I am planning to learn. I've always had zillions of goals - become fluent in Spanish, learn martial arts, become a chess Master, get uber-fit & cut up but CPR is something that could actually save someone's life & I can learn in an afternoon (I think, is this right?) so there are really no excuses. I can't imagine if my kid or even a stranger died in front of me because I didn't know what I was doing to save them.

There seem to be dozens of course in NYC, I'm debating which one to pick. If you learned, where did you do so?

I'm thinking of going with a course via the RedCross but it's kind of expensive - $95.

 

[bhavv]

Nah, its not my place to intervene with death. Enough overpopulation already. If a young person is dying ... Well as harsh as it is that's just survival of the fittest.

We need a new plague to wipe out 75-90% of the human population.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I am planning to learn. I've always had zillions of goals - become fluent in Spanish, learn martial arts, become a chess Master, get uber-fit & cut up but CPR is something that could actually save someone's life & I can learn in an afternoon (I think, is this right?) so there are really no excuses. I can't imagine if my kid or even a stranger died in front of me because I didn't know what I was doing to save them.

There seem to be dozens of course in NYC, I'm debating which one to pick. If you learned, where did you do so?

I'm thinking of going with a course via the RedCross but it's kind of expensive - $95.

Learned in the Navy. $95 seems extreme, as there really isn't all that much to it. It is a good thing to know I think, though I've never had occasion to use it in...thirty years plus.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Why do they charge you more than a token fee to learn it? Do they want to discourage people from obtaining skills they can use to save others?

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Why do they charge you more than a token fee to learn it? Do they want to discourage people from obtaining skills they can use to save others?

This is America. Teaching someone CPR puts you in a position where if they come across a corpse with the head chopped off and 'fail to save' the unfortunate victim the corpses family can sue you and very likely win since you 'obviously didn't train them well'. That may be what they consider the 'token fee' required to prepare them for the liability.

 

[Berzerker]

I took a class maybe 10 years ago, was about 2 hours

 

[Bugfatty300]

I learned CPR and mouth to mouth for free in high school with a very beautiful and seductive plastic female torso. I would pay $95 to have her again...

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I learned CPR and mouth to mouth for free in high school with a very beautiful and seductive plastic female torso. I would pay $95 to have her again...

I know some places you can do a lot better for $95.

 

[Flying Pig]

This is America. Teaching someone CPR puts you in a position where if they come across a corpse with the head chopped off and 'fail to save' the unfortunate victim the corpses family can sue you and very likely win since you 'obviously didn't train them well'. That may be what they consider the 'token fee' required to prepare them for the liability.

That's not how liability laws work, though, even in the US. You're immune from prosecution provided that you act selflessly, within the level of your training, and do not act negligently or recklessly or cease giving care without a good reason, usually imminent danger to yourself, the casualty or others. In some cases, providing amateur care where there was no need to do so could fall under the heading of 'recklessness', but by the time you have to give CPR there's not really any question that you're causing any extra damage. If you attend a good course and follow your training you will not be sued. There would certainly be no liability in any case on the course provider unless their training was so bad as to be dangerous. At any rate, by the time you're providing CPR, you're already in a situation that can't be made worse, so I don't really see what you'd be liable for.

 

[Borachio]

Yes. I learned how to do it. But many years ago.

If you ring the emergency services, though, they can talk you through it while waiting for an ambulance to arrive.

It is pretty straightforward. And it's unlikely you'll do more harm than good if a person has stopped breathing and their heart has stopped as well.

 

[Flying Pig]

Yes, the only thing I can imagine you fouling up is doing it on somebody who isn't quite dead. That said, the training nowadays is to do it on anybody not breathing as a matter of course, on the grounds that amateurs are unlikely to find a (much weaker) pulse on somebody in that state, and the number who will be hurt from that is much smaller than the number who will be helped. If you need CPR, it's almost certainly because you've just had a heart attack.

 

[Farm Boy]

Do eeet Narz. I did it. Then again, I pass out when I cut myself, so I am not certain how much help I'd be, but you never know.

 

[The_J]

I don't remember the price, but I'm sure it wasn't that expensive here.
So in theory I should know about it, but already in the training they told me that I'd probably have broken at least half of the rips in that torso.

 

[Borachio]

I was told that a broken rib or two was nothing to complain about in a person whose heart had stopped beating.

 

[Narz]

Nah, its not my place to intervene with death. Enough overpopulation already. If a young person is dying ... Well as harsh as it is that's just survival of the fittest.

We need a new plague to wipe out 75-90% of the human population.

What if the stranger I save is the guy working on the doomsday virus?

 

[Flying Pig]

I was told that a broken rib or two was nothing to complain about in a person whose heart had stopped beating.

Indeed. To be frank, the sort of people who need CPR usually don't have the springiest bones to begin with - you might get away with it if you're dealing with a teenager, but not a lot of those have heart attacks.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

I learned it over a decade ago when I was getting my driver's license, but I never needed to apply it, so I wouldn't really trust myself in an emergency.

 

[Commodore]

I am planning to learn. I've always had zillions of goals - become fluent in Spanish, learn martial arts, become a chess Master, get uber-fit & cut up but CPR is something that could actually save someone's life & I can learn in an afternoon (I think, is this right?) so there are really no excuses. I can't imagine if my kid or even a stranger died in front of me because I didn't know what I was doing to save them.

There seem to be dozens of course in NYC, I'm debating which one to pick. If you learned, where did you do so?

I'm thinking of going with a course via the RedCross but it's kind of expensive - $95.

I'm no longer certified because I couldn't be bothered to keep up with the renewal of the certification, but I know CPR by virtue of the Combat Lifesaver Course I went through in the Army. That course also taught me how to deal with extreme bleeding, loss of limbs, tension pneumothorax, and administer an IV.

 

[MagisterCultuum]

I got CPR certified about 4 months ago, along with some other people from my local branch of Habitat for Humanity.

If I recall correctly they charged $35, which included the price of the pizza we ate while they were getting things set up.

 

[onejayhawk]

I was certified, once.

J