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I had to help give CPR to someone recently, and their eyes were partly open. Got me wondering whether they were partly conscious while I was doing compressions.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 7 months ago (2 children)

If someone needs CPR, they’re dead and you’re trying to bring them back to life. They weren’t conscious and won’t remember receiving CPR.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I've seen/performed CPR on hundreds of people. The vast majority of cases, this is the case.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I don’t remember it, but I’m still alive 25 years later

and very grateful to Mrs. Sarah Boyd, wherever you are... :')

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Saw it done on someone once. If you're in bad enough shape that you're getting it, you are for sure not going to remember it. Which is good because it's fucking violent

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

For real, IIRC CPR instructors will sometimes tell students that the ambulance medics would rather have broken ribs on their hands than oxygen starvation in the brain.

It's actually why so many medical professionals rant about families who cancel DNRs, because the elderly are especially likely to suffer injury during CPR.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I haven’t had it but my mom did. She experienced or remembered none of the actual cpr but the recovery from bruising and broken ribs was so painful that she signed a do not resuscitate order saying she would rather die than have cpr again.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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