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girl4you2 -> RE: To Flip or Not to Flip (12/28/2005 3:36:05 PM)
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ORIGINAL: ExistentialSteel
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ORIGINAL: Yourkitten
Im Dr_SMXtreme, current Master of yourkitten...
put that amount of electricity across the body like that you can put the heart in to ventricular fibrillation, ventricular tachycardia or asystole. either one can be detrimental and lethal a matter of their LIFE or DEATH.
unless you have a defibrillator, IV solutions, BVM's, oxygen and all the drugs you need to work a CARDIAC ARREST..
you might need to add a scalpel with sharp blade, cauterizer, bone saw, spreader, and a manual on doing open heart massage as well. once the heart goes out of regular rhythm, you're not guaranteed to kick it back even with a fully staffed ER and OR, but you've a heck of a lot more chance than with a home defib kit and knowing cpr and first aid. i think the disclaimer for this should be that you don't mess with things that aren't a mind thing unless you are with someone trained and having privliges in a really close by ER and OR.
informed and educated consent.
i wish you well.
Geez, folks. I don't care if you are EMT's or whatever with the most extensive emergency equipment or a heart lung machine right in your house, it can still be fatal. Don't make it sound as if you can put someone in V-fib and pull them out of it if you are trained. It doesn't always work that way. Only use Tens Units or whatever below the waist.
i'm not an emt or a nurse, but i do know a little bit about medical stuff, and my whole point about adding bone saws, retractors, cauterizers, et al, was that nobody outside of an ER and cardiac surgeon possibly can bring you out of abnormal heart rhythms. you don't get priviliges in a hospital unless you are an md with current licensure. just trying to point out that people might wish to think before doing things that can have serious and/or fatal results. (scares heck out of me that they sell home defib kits. gives a wrong impression. i wonder if they save more lives than they lose?)
i have an idea that the other poster was thinking along similar lines, but i can only guess.
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