Quote (Teerick @ Sep 4 2016 09:18am)
Late to the party and you all don't know me. ICU nurse here. Eyes opening on their own is good, means reflexes are intact and brain is working. Brain is biggest fear when someone goes down like that. Brain hogs 60% of your oxygen no matter what so if brain is starved, better believe so is everything else. Eyes opening while sedated is even better, means probably doing pretty good under the veil of the sedation. Just gotta wait and see how his heart is and what needs to be done from a cardiac standpoint. Hella congrats on being there and able to do CPR. First person(s) on the chest deserve credit for saving a life.
@revis They only encourage mouth to mouth in two person rescue and if you have a bag valve mask, which is generally stored near/with the AED. AHA doesn't give a fuck about mouth to mouth, they're pushing CPR so hard right now.
Yea I was kicking myself at first for not giving breaths but looking back I'm glad I didn't. There were two of us trained but one had to keep the others back and helpful.
I'm still not feeling the best about his chances from the scene. But this is still better than what it was prior.
This post was edited by suhduelerz on Sep 4 2016 11:00am