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Cyanopicacooki t1_je43pwr wrote

Reply to comment by Vadered in ELI5: Why do you need to do breaths during cpr? by [deleted]

> Most people suck at both rescue breathing

I certainly did until we got the Bluetooth enabled dummies, I was pumping far, far too much breath and in and would probably have caused the recipient to vomit. I get retrained every year, and we spend a lot of time on CPR.

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Vadered t1_je4406d wrote

Thank you for your saving of lives.

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Cyanopicacooki t1_je4gl03 wrote

First aiders don't really save lives, we just try to keep things going until the folk who can save lives turn up.

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