Subject: Oh, fun!
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Posted on: 2012-11-08 03:41:00 UTC
That's right up there with having to cut your hand off!
...Sorry, Maedhros...
Although, you'll do a lot more than just break/dislocate bones if you do what I just pretended to do a dive shoulder-first on their chest... (Again: cannot CPR)
If you guys haven't already seen this, you really ought to. It's amazing, and I'm telling you that as the daughter of a watercolor artist as well as a fangirl.
http://gold-seven.deviantart.com/gallery/137656
Also, I'd be buying prints if I wasn't a broke college student.
That's awesome! :D
Ahemn, sorry about that, my brain shorted out for a moment due to the SHEER AWESOMENESS this person has.
You're lucky - you get to be a self-reviving cat brain.
I'm just a fantastic pair of sight-enhancing devices shaped like an S and a C.
Sigh.
Whoopsie!
Probably not the first time I caused that to happen!
-breaks several ribs because cannot CPR-
You are looking to keep oxygenated blood pumping through the body until EMS arrives on the scene to relieve you. That is what the 2 breaths (though new guidelines say one can ignore the breaths if the victim's mouth is sort of FUBAR/covered in fluids) by 30 compressions are for. CPR does not magically resuscitate people, nor do defibrillators bring people back from the dead.
When doing compressions, you need to press down about five centimetres (two inches for you imperial-system folks) on a point between the victim's nipple line (or two fingers' width just above the base of the sternum).
Here's the nasty thing: you will break ribs and dislocate/break the victim's sternum no matter what.
Sweet dreams.
That's right up there with having to cut your hand off!
...Sorry, Maedhros...
Although, you'll do a lot more than just break/dislocate bones if you do what I just pretended to do a dive shoulder-first on their chest... (Again: cannot CPR)
Yeah, the usual thing being that broken ribs are preferable to being, you know, dead... but thanks for the funfact, I need to get some lifeguard training pamphlets because one of my characters is a trained lifeguard and I'm not.
... Said character would hopefully know how to get someone who wasn't quite drowned, but definitely choking on water, to breathe properly, right? (I'm still in the plotting, not in the researching stage yet...)
"[...]how to get someone who wasn't quite drowned, but definitely choking on water, to breathe properly, right?"
Assuming the victim has been through a near-drowning experience and has inhaled a significant quantity of water while in distress, the proper response would be to get them to a hospital ASAP. You're not trained to go and drain somebody's lungs, you're there to make sure the paramedics get someone who's still breathing.
You should call for an ambulance, describe the victim, give your address, ask for ETA, and send someone outside to guide the paramedics to the victim. Get someone to fetch you a blanket and a first-aid kit, and put on some gloves before touching the victim again. While waiting for the ambulance you should treat your vic for shock, maintain and monitor vital signs, and inform him/her that they can suffer from secondary drowning, where inhaled water can actually cause you to drown on dry land up to 72 hours after nearly drowning.
I still use my trusty Canadian Lifesaving manual for reference. If you live stateside, I'm sure you can either become a guard yourself (it's really fun!) or find their textbooks somewhere at a pool that gives lifeguard training.
I will have to obtain a reference book. I try to write realistically, especially in my steampunk and modern fantasy stories, because I have a tendency to be trundling along and have my suspension of disbelief suddenly shot.
It occurs to me that my characters are going to have to be less reckless if they want to live to retirement...
Yup, I'm stateside - time to abuse my library research privileges. Thanks, SeaTurtle!
Crap, crap, double crap, I did it again.
Also, check out this awesome video I found: Too Late to Apologize: A Declaration
Been one since childhood, really. There's just something so schoolhouse rock about that video, you people have really rescued my evening.
-didn't really-
I especially like the violin solo Thomas Jefferson got near the end~
Proof that the PPC needs more brother/sister duos! :D
Ho
Ly
Fu-
[WOOHOO!]
The artist is a pretty darn good fanfic writer too. She makes me want to read A song of Ice and Fire as well, because woo, pretty pictures!