• @[email protected]
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    1252 years ago

    One of the few cases where consent of anything can be assumed is lifesaving of a person unable to respond. One of the first steps of cpr is to seek a response to ensure that the person is unconscious before then confirming no pulse.

    But yeah I get why it’s awkward

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        12 years ago

        Then put whichever Karen looks fiercest in charge of compressions. Either she’ll get in there and do them, or she’ll demur, in which case you say you will and she should watch so she can start when you get tired. That makes her your witness. Don’t forget to tell someone else to call emergency services.

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            12 years ago

            Good point. On the other hand if you tell her to start, and when she starts to object you say fine I’ll do them until i get too tired, she’ll feel like she won the argument which is a step in the right direction.

      • @[email protected]
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        742 years ago

        I’m not CPR certified or anything, but I think if you’re just grabbing titties you’re probably doing it wrong.

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          22 years ago

          Even though you’re joking I wouldn’t be surprised if someone did react like that. “Uhhmmmm, that’s no CPR, you’re just fondling her! I know because I went to CPR training.”

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            Can you post any example of a mob attacking someone for performing CPR on a woman?

            Seems like a pretty wild assumtion that you will be attacked for helping someone in a life threathening state by some nebulous “them.”

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              No. every case I’ve heard of is after the emergency was over someone gets the law involved. Harassment, but never a mob involved.

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                12 years ago

                Care to cite any examples in the US of prosecutions or civil cases that weren’t immediately tossed within the last 30 years? This was once a problem. Good Samaritan Laws were passed to fix it, probably before you were even born. You’re just making stuff up.

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          132 years ago

          For sure! But I didn’t say you WERE grabbing titties, just that you’re perceived to be.

          I mean just getting the electrodes on for a defibrillator you have to lift their shirt…

          Can you see that being perceived poorly?

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            122 years ago

            Unlikely that someone holding a defibrillator next to someone passed out on the ground is going to be perceived poorly.

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                12 years ago

                Fortunately they are cheap and easy to use correctly (and nearly impossible to use wrong), as such they are all over. If you are in a public place I’d be surprised if you didn’t have ready access to a defibrillator in the US, though you may not realize where it is.

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              You would think so, right? But the reality is that men are always assumed to have the worst intentions. Especially in hindsight. i.e. “he didn’t need to do that right? he must be trying to cop a feel”.

              Same reason men aren’t usually kindergarten teachers, because they’re immediately assumed to be pedos.

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              152 years ago

              Unfortunately in a panic scenario like that, sometimes people don’t see things as clearly as they might normally.

              And people aren’t great on a normal day either.

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            62 years ago

            I mean just getting the electrodes on for a defibrillator you have to lift their shirt

            You also need to make sure their bra doesn’t have an underwire and remove it if there is.

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        302 years ago

        The instructors advise you to speak aloud your actions as you do them. Also helps if you have already levelled out instructions to the rent a crowd to perform specific tasks like send for help and get the defib and you three who said yes to cpr training let’s line up and take turns doing cpr.

        …of course, the training to be comfortable giving these instructions is not really done.

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          112 years ago

          Absolutely!

          And what if you’re outside a bar and everyone is drunk?

          Unfortunately life doesn’t provide ideal scenarios, not to mention that under the duress of what you’re doing you may forget steps.

          I’m not saying that fondling an unconscious person is the same as cpr, but that perceptions are funny things.

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        52 years ago

        If you’re touching her tits, you’re not giving proper CPR. Proper CPR happens just below the sternum. That’s well below any kind of bra band. If her tits are that low, she’s either an EE cup or 80 years old.

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          212 years ago

          Huh, I looked it up and checked out the instructions and diagrams of several websites. Every one of them said to place your hands on the upper part of the chest and every image showed their hands between the nipples.

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            172 years ago

            I heard the saying: if you didn’t break a rib you didn’t do CPR right. So I’m pretty sure it’s not beneath the sternum

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          92 years ago

          You need to compress the chest, so pressure needs to go on the sternum. If you’re pressing below it, the only thing you’re compressing is their intestines, which is not gonna help anyone

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          Wouldn’t that break the xyphoid process? Below that is where you Heimlich. Above, on the strong center bone, is where you do chest compression. Also, as a haver of boobs, I can vouch that they will have enough space between them when she’s flat on her back and braless that you can put your locked fists between them on that bone and shove the heel of your hand towards the floor.

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          102 years ago

          Okay but we’ve already established that it’s not about what you ARE doing, but what people think you’re doing.

          Perception.

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      32 years ago

      COWS. “Can you here me?” “Open your eyes.” “What’s your name?” “Squeeze my hands.”