I had to help give CPR to someone recently, and their eyes were partly open. Got me wondering whether they were partly conscious while I was doing compressions.
If someone needs CPR, they’re dead and you’re trying to bring them back to life. They weren’t conscious and won’t remember receiving CPR.
This is the correct answer.
I’ve seen/performed CPR on hundreds of people. The vast majority of cases, this is the case.
I don’t remember it, but I’m still alive 25 years later
and very grateful to Mrs. Sarah Boyd, wherever you are… :')
Sarah Boyd the actress?
No, the woman who resuscitated me.
Saw it done on someone once. If you’re in bad enough shape that you’re getting it, you are for sure not going to remember it. Which is good because it’s fucking violent
For real, IIRC CPR instructors will sometimes tell students that the ambulance medics would rather have broken ribs on their hands than oxygen starvation in the brain.
It’s actually why so many medical professionals rant about families who cancel DNRs, because the elderly are especially likely to suffer injury during CPR.
So you know that thing on TV where they take the paddles and go “CLEAR!” and shock the patient?
I had that done. Was mildly sedated. Didn’t even know it happened. Woke up and went “Did it work?” and the doc was like “Yeah, you already asked that question…”
I really embarrassed myself under general anesthesia when I kept asking the surgeon about one of the nurses I was attracted to. I had no memory of it. He told me about it later.
The worst part was, the nurse was one of my neighbors. She wasn’t in the room for the procedure, but I’m sure someone told her about it, because she was frosty afterwards.
Now whenever I go in for something like a colonoscopy, I’m very worried I’ll say something stupid. I always ask after I wake up, and they always say I didn’t talk. But they might be trained to white lie about that shit.
Yikes. Are you already in a relationship where that could also cause an issue with your S/O? Making them feel jealous/nervous that you would leave for the attractive nurse if you had the opportunity?
Happened many years ago. The neighbor nurse married a creep and they moved away.
I haven’t had it but my mom did. She experienced or remembered none of the actual cpr but the recovery from bruising and broken ribs was so painful that she signed a do not resuscitate order saying she would rather die than have cpr again.
What did she need it for?
My friend had an NDE when she was three. She says it was like a classic account but slightly nightmarish, saying she remembers at first a heaven-like scene before being told “don’t look down”, but she does anyways and sees everyone she knows in the other afterlife. I don’t know how much CPR she needed that time, but she’d then need it again at the age of fourteen because we were screwing around and needed rescuing (I did not need CPR). Ironically she knows CPR, the only one in my prime social circle who does, so it’s scary she’s always the one who needs it.
Maybe it’s time to take a class! Just in case she needs it again…
I watched a video on dying and one of the common symptoms is seeing family and friends who have already passed. For those who obviously survive a near death experience.
She should’ve taught it to her circle then.
Can’t tell if lemmyns is a typo or on purpose. If purposeful, please explain
It’s a Portmanteaux of Lemmy and humans.
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