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<blockquote data-quote="brcfo_outdoors" data-source="post: 2697744" data-attributes="member: 113623"><p>You are not wrong about the value of an AED, but you are ignoring the value of CPR and how it improves survivability even on its own when applied immediately. Since cardiac arrest can be cause by anything from choking to drowning to anaphylaxis in addition to pre-existing heart conditions, there is a wide application for it. A reasonable and trained person is not going to do CPR indefinitely, part of the training is to reassess in regular intervals, not to mention the fact that single rescuer CPR is exhausting. You are not going to sit there for hours doing chest compressions in hope that a helicopter will show up because the patient will be brain dead long before that. You are going to take the ten seconds to assess whether the patient is pulseless, breathless, and unresponsive and then act. If I was in need of CPR, I would rather have someone attempt to save me than write me off simply because there wasn't an AED present. If someone <em>does</em> have a preexisting heart condition and chooses to carry an AED that their partner is trained on and proficient with (granted they are pretty straight forward with verbal and visual prompts), that is no less hunting than anything else.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="brcfo_outdoors, post: 2697744, member: 113623"] You are not wrong about the value of an AED, but you are ignoring the value of CPR and how it improves survivability even on its own when applied immediately. Since cardiac arrest can be cause by anything from choking to drowning to anaphylaxis in addition to pre-existing heart conditions, there is a wide application for it. A reasonable and trained person is not going to do CPR indefinitely, part of the training is to reassess in regular intervals, not to mention the fact that single rescuer CPR is exhausting. You are not going to sit there for hours doing chest compressions in hope that a helicopter will show up because the patient will be brain dead long before that. You are going to take the ten seconds to assess whether the patient is pulseless, breathless, and unresponsive and then act. If I was in need of CPR, I would rather have someone attempt to save me than write me off simply because there wasn't an AED present. If someone [I]does[/I] have a preexisting heart condition and chooses to carry an AED that their partner is trained on and proficient with (granted they are pretty straight forward with verbal and visual prompts), that is no less hunting than anything else. [/QUOTE]
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