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When you say "CPR isn't indicated when the patient is breathing" you cause inaction at times when CPR could save a life. Agonal breathing needs to be treated with CPR. ‘She’s sort of breathing’: What linguistic factors determine call-taker recognition of agonal breathing in emergency calls for...

Not true! Yes. I don't believe that's the case with ketamine. It's not necessarily either. It depends on the state. And it's even more complicated than that. I can provide more details in the morning.

What are you even talking about, that CPR isn't done on someone who's breathing? And you reject theoretical references before you even see them. WTH...I think every doctor and nurse knows this about CPR. That's not even the point. A large percentage of people may die in immense discomfort...

I've been researching this topic for years and I can probably give references to anyone who cares to be specific. But some of this stuff is pretty easily Googlable by anyone.

I'm not even in the hard to believe realm yet. I have stuff in that realm but you're not ready for it. Look it up.

Yeah, I mean rightfully "deprived." My point is that chest compressions and shocks are sometimes given when the patient is known to be breathing. Even conscious.

Yes. It's done. You're not supposed to wait until a person stops breathing. He needed CPR, shocks, and/or a breathing tube. He was deprived that due to the DNR order, and he was also deprived extra sedation.

I have personal knowledge of someone for whom a DNR order was issued when he lost consciousness. He was breathing but needed CPR and was seemingly unconscious (by the looks of it from a non-medical professional). Sedation was requested by the family at the time of the DNR order and two...

If it's not what I've seen it's what I read from a source I believed. I may be able to provide more information on one of my points if someone's interested. I have a lot of notes. The lack of thermostats in some hospitals should be easy enough for me to re-research. If I'm way too hot in bed I...

I have several thoughts on this topic: I've heard hospital patients complain about not being allowed to get out of their beds and the roller-things their put on when no rooms are available. They're stuck, sometimes for days, laying on their back. Sometimes they can't turn over on their own. Are...

I've been designing a backsplash fix of a botched tile job some guy did in the 1960s. Fixing it perfectly requires taking off half the tiles, or all and starting over, and that's a lot so he and his wife settled for it and so did my family. When I redo the kitchen I may replace it with grey...

Song from A Star is born. Clip in video from Nine 1/2 Weeks.

There are so many ways to crunch the data. Now I want to know how many long distance runners had bad side effects to the vaccines. And how many sedentary people, etc.

One safety measure I intend to take is avoid having two hands in the air while looking up when I'm standing on a platform with nothing to lean against. Having my full foot on a platform as opposed to my partial foot on a ladder step is nice, but not necessarily enough. After watching a lot of...

I got an aluminum 250lb rated Louisville Ladder. I heard about microcracks in fiberglass ladders, and them falling apart from vibrating in a pickup truck over time. And they're heavy. I don't do physical work every day and I don't want to add risk to my back by carrying a heavy ladder.