Is this the real CABG support group?
Some of the new members and those just joining might be asking this question. Think, if you will about how you were feeling when you found this group. You needed help, were crying out for answers, support, understanding. If you had found this place last week when all the decussions were flaming a member because they made a mistake, and who appoligized, by the way, how would you have felt? Would you look to such a group for help, for support. I don't think I would have. What I would suggest in the furture is if you have a disagrement with a member, email them personnaly. There is no reason the rest of us have to be involved. THis is after all "Bypass Surgery Recovery Support". Not who hates who, who did what, or what if's. Just a support group of people sharing the same needs. Please, lets get back to what were about. Chuck
Without quoting the whole thing.... Some inaccuracies, as I read the quotes... "Cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or CPR, can keep the brain and heart viable for about 10 minutes, long enough for an ambulance to bring a defibrillator." I myself was kept alive 15 min. I have heard of 25 min and even a 45 minute successful outcome of (standard) CPR. So putting artificial time limits on CPR is not what we (as AHA instructors) do. There was an earlier 'urban myth' about 'cough cpr'... attributed to a hospital in Rochester which denied any association with the claim. "Only a fraction of cardiac arrest victims get CPR from a bystander and only a few of those will receive the electric shock treatment before suffering irreversible brain damage. The rate of survival without serious brain damage is about 10 percent, said Bossaert, a professor at the University Hospital in Antwerp, Belgium." With the increasing prevalence of AEDs (defibrillators in airports, casinos, churches, etc.), great improvement in the suvivability of cardiac arrest has resulted. So AED combined with CPR is a good bet. I also make it my business to teach CPR to people(not cough CPR!) Finally, coughing is a 'sign of circulation' . The person is not yet in arrest. The biggest inaccuracy that I see is the statement that 'heart atttack' is brought on by irregular heart beat. Maybe ther eis such a heart attack, but a more accurate statement would be to say 'cardiac arrest' can follow an irregular heart beat. The term 'Heart Attack', as used in the U.S. is defined to be heart msucle damage due to blockage of a coronary artery. Harold