did someone ever drown and revived using CPR?
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You're asking about two different techniques for keeping a victim viable.\n In CPR, there is no mouth contact. The chest is compressed in regular intervals, forcing the heart's chambers to move blood throughout the body.\n Artificial respiration ( 2nd part of your question) is a method to put oxygenated air into the lungs, where it can be picked up by either a beating heart's blood flow or the flow produced by CPR.\n Artificial respiration alone, is used on a victim that has a detectable pulse, but not breathing on their own. This CAN result in a victim being revived on the spot.\n CPR is administered in conjunction with artificial respiration, to a victim that has no detectable pulse and is not breathing. The chances of immediate revival using these two methods at this point, is slim to none. It's just to keep the victim viable until a heart  defibrillator can be used to kick start the heart. So, for the first part of your question, nope, it ain't gonna happen by CPR alone. As to the second part of your question, that wouldn't happen with me. I carry what's called a pocket mask in my emergency med kit. It fits over the victims nose and mouth and I can use it to administer artificial respiration without any actual oral contact. It also has a hook up for the attachment of an oxygen bottle so doubles as an O2 mask. Never know who's infected with what these days.
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no he drowned and then his mom taught him,\nthat's what i think happened
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In spite of having nearly died on several occasions, I still can't say that I can honestly answer this question to you or to myself.\n\nIn a couple of cases, my transition from conscious to unconscious and near death was so swift that I had no time for "conscious" fear, although what I experienced between "slipping away" and being resuscitated was at the least interesting and at the worst extremely distressing.\n\nWhen I drowned, I had some of what we loosely call near death experiences.  I became calm, unaware of any bodily sensation, and the last thing I saw with my eyes was the water around me, which seemed peaceful.  Then I was somewhere else, witnessing scenes from my early childhood (I was eleven at the time). Then there was a scene where I was a child playing in our back yard, and my mother came to the back door, called my name and told me to come back, that it was not time for me to go. This scene was followed by a state of complete terror, and a confused kind of semiconsciouness -- best I can describe it.  That was the point that where my rescuers reached me.  What followed after that was best described as total pandemonium, and I was told later that at that point I was fighting the rescuers and almost pulled one down with me.  He told me that he was so exhausted that he feared for his life.  He had sprint-swimmed over 100 meters to reach me, and when I struggled it sapped his remaing energy.  Fortunately, there were two who came to my aid, and the second was able to help restrain me. They got me to shore, and I had coughed out a lot of water and was breathing again.  All three of us were unable to stand for several minutes -- our knees were like rubber.  The one who I nearly took down with me, he is my brother.  We never spoke of this to our parents or anyone, and for years never spoke of it ourselves.  \n\nMore recently, I was hospitalized for a severe pulmonary illness.  I stopped breathing twice in the ER.  Both events were horrible experiences.   I convulsed and felt like every fiber of my being was being ripped apart.  During one of the events, I felt that I was literally torn from my body and pulled upwards by an invisible force.  All the while I was fighting (in my mind) to exert all my will to force myself not to die, to start breathing again.  I had no other thoughts except one -- this is really going to suck if I die like this, right now.\n\nI'm still here, and I hope I stick around awhile.  I am more aware of my mortality than I'd reckon any average person may be, but I still cannot honestly say if I "fear" death or not.  All I can say is I now accept its inevitability, and in that sense, I no longer dread it.  So, maybe I don't fear it. \n\nWhat I do fear is leaving life before I feel ready.  I'm still relatively young, and feel I have things to be done ere I go.
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No, any air put into her lungs at any depth would cause an Aretial Gas Embolism. An air bubble would go straight into her bloodstream and spell certain doom. So for your own personal referrance never ever take a breath off a scuba regulator if you are freedivng (holding your breath from the surface). The difference in pressure even 6 ft cold be fatal.
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They were drowned in an accident.\n\nhttp://www.allscifi.com/trivialist.asp?Answer=A&Filter=&Question=13231
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Hypervenilating removes extra carbon dioxide from the blood.  Our urge to breathe is not driven by lack of oxygen, but by extra CO2 building up; this also affects blood pH, as it forms carbonic acid, so low pH stimulates breathing, too.\n\nThus, the person can hold their breath longer, after hyperventilating.  he / she will not be forced to surface to breathe, to relieve the urge to remove more CO2.\n\nHowever, they will have disturbed their blood pH, which can cause the brain to malfunction, leading to loss of muscular control, and to drowning.\n\nThey might get low on oxygen, too.  Normally, we carry plenty of oxygen in our bodies; even the air we breathe out has plenty of oxygen in it, and can be forced into the lungs of an unconscious person, in "mouth to mouth resuscitation".  IRC the proper name for this is "expired air resuscitation" but I am not sure.
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I know an excellent trainer in Vancouver.  No wait, I just remembered he drowned last year trying to save an air mattress at the shallow end of the pool. I'm really Sorry.
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I believe that it exists though I cannot say I have seen or experienced one myself.\n\nI would have to say though, that I believe that such miracles are generally NOT associated with people who are literally on their death beds with their doctors saying they will die very shortly.  They generally are not associated with people who are brain-dead or dependent on respirators/ventilators for survival.\n\nToo often it is the case that families insist on maintaining such heroic efforts to keep patients "alive" in the name of holding out for a "miracle".  I have seen this countless numbers of times, and as I have said before, I have NEVER seen such a "miracle" take place.  If everything was free and our resources were endless, then that is fine, but unfortunately this sort of practice costs American society (presuming you are American) MILLIONS of healthcare dollars a year, which is causing a huge strain on our economy.\n\nAgain, I do not doubt that they can occur (both miracles in the strict sense or the word, or whether mind over matter or other methods as previous posters have alluded to) but they are extremely rare.
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How many times have you asked this question?\n\nYou know you have a wierd fetish, and more inportantly your putting your wife's life at risk doing CPR on her.
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u should be able to do cpr with clothing on the victim, however if the clothing does interfere with CPR then it is okay. for a female victim, it would be neccesary to ask bystanders to step back if u r about to bare her chest.  RN
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??? i think it would vary depending upon how long someone can hold their breath, what type of situation it was...like, if someone were being violently drowned, they may suck in water making it quicker. same with drinking. being inebriated may decrease the time if the person was less in control of bodily function.... why are you asking.....
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yes you can - you cannot kill yourself by holding your breathe eventually you will pass out and start breathing
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yes.  i have done it with boiling water (trust me.. i had no choice).  they died immediately.
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Yes I have, Once when I was about 14 I was watching my little sister while my mom went shopping.  She found 2 dimes in the living room and tried to swallow them I tried putting my finger in her mouth to get them out which was like THE WORST THING TO DO. Luckily while I was calling 911 my mom came in, turned up on her stomach and punded her back (all the time I was crying and screaming to the 911 operator to hurry up becasue she kept asking me so many questions).  Thats why I believe that EVERY person nomatter what age should get a CPR training from the red cross.
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On two separate occasions, my heart and breathing stopped and I was essentially dead until resuscitated with CPR.\n\nI did not see any afterlife.
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Yes.\n\nManual CPR does not change.\n\nUsing an AED only changes insofar as you place the paddle BESIDE the pacemaker, not on it.\n\n(American Red Cross CPR Instructor)
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Hi - I put your question on my watch list because I wanted to answer it when I had enough time to really answer. In quickly scanning the answers you've received thus far, I can tell that my experience (s) may be quite different than them. On the other hand, when something has truly happened to a person along this line, sharing it is very difficult. It is an extremely unforgettable experience and one that is, I think, meant to be treasured and held in one's "heart", so to speak. Have you had an "angel experience" yourself? If the answer is a yes, you will no doubt understand my reticence in answering this with as much vivid detail as I could. There have been some incredibly wonderful people I've "met" through this answer forum, but I don't know you...and that said, I will go ahead and recount a bit of what I have experienced personally, and relate one additional story to you, as well.\n\nStory # 1: My brother's encounter: Technically, this involves both of my brothers...so, take it for what it is - a fond but quiet memory in our family. (Angel experiences are not easy things to talk about.) My family was vacationing in Miami one summer, and my two brothers (age 13 and 12 at the time) were out swimming early in the morning on an empty beach. The waters were very rough, and the older brother, usually the more sensible and certainly less of a risk-taker, cautioned the younger brother (a hellion, so to speak...) not to go out too far. Both have always been excellent swimmers and even California surfer-types, so the younger brother wasn't about to be deterred. Anyway, the waters were indeed far rougher than our usually placid Pacific ocean waves...and he was caught in an undertow and literally wasn't able to breathe. Of course, his life "flashed before his eyes" and the whole thing that we always hear about. The older brother didn't know what to do - he knew if he went out to help, he'd drown...he started calling for help, but as it was about six in the morning, there was not one single person in sight. He was standing with his back facing the ocean, looking for someone, anyone. In the meantime, the younger brother SWEARS (and he's not a religious, weird person by any means) that suddenly a very strong, huge young man picked him up, carried him to shore and deposited him gently on the sand. The older brother turned around, and was shocked, relieved to see our youngest brother standing there, shivering, scared out of his mind, etc. But he never saw a single person, much less this huge gentle giant that the youngest saw. My youngest brother looked around to try to thank someone, but there was nobody there...just a freezing, overcast beach and a howling ocean.\n\nStory #2: I had a definite experience just over a year ago, and as I'm sitting here thinking about how to begin, I think I'm just not ready to talk about it yet. Suffice it to say, I was in extreme need, and an angelic being (a young man, again, around 19 or so - saved my life. I can tell you that the feeling was one of pure peace and a kind of joy that I've never felt before. And, again, the whole thing: he disappeared just when I wanted to thank him, etc. \n\nSome of the facts about angels is that they do it to bring praise to God, and I hope my sincerity comes through when I can promise you that that is true. There are angels, for sure. They are all around us, helping in times of extraordinary circumstances - life/death, illness, danger, etc. It isn't scary or weird when it happens to you, either. It feels like the most normal "abnormal" thing in the world. And when it's real, it doesn't make a lot of sense to talk endlessly about it. How can a person describe such an intimate sort of encounter? Let's face it - the world doesn't exactly encourage this kind of "sharing", does it? \n\nOne more thing - about 20 years ago I went through a time of q