Why YSK: there has been quite a development in the first aid medicine and some things we used to learn are now regarded as myths and should be avoided. Anyway it always good to, keep your first aid knowledge up to date.

  • CthulhuDreamer@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    It probably depends on when you did it last time. For me its that breathing mouth-to-mouth is no longer recommended for untrained people and that there are two different stable positions, which depend on whether the person is conscious or not.

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      You should also know the reason mouth to mouth is “not recommended” is because people get frozen with fear of “doing it wrong” or grossed out by puke/blood and end up doing nothing. So this recommendation is in place to make sure first responders actually do start heart compressions which is the most important if the two. Hoping this is actually explained in the training

      Pumping the heart should should still cause some air movement through an unobstructed airway, but not as much as mouth to mouth.

      In my country they mentioned the UKs new recommendation, while still recommended mouth-to-mouth. But pumping is priority, do mouth to mouth if you can. And spend as little time as possible on mouth to mouth, get back to pumping asap. Also expect to break ribs when pumping… I really hope I never get to use my COR training