When CPR Doesn't Work

[@bassedup7097]

As a former cpr instructor, I've performed cpr 2x prior. Last week I had to perform it on a friend and co worker. Fought the fight of my life.. obstructed airway hindered restoring o2. He will be his donating organs today. I needed this video

[@racheldelong-bradner4666]

Bless you! I pray for you and your strength as well as your friend and his family.

[@johnnyamaro1933]

I needed to watch this. I start my first day as an EMT tomorrow. I am scared, I keep thinking and stressing. Thank you for the words I needed to hear

[@expandhealthinc.1887]

How is it going? Thank you for your service ❤

[@teemgamers6805]

👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿😊

[@BraveDave]

Fantastic video, and you really come across as a great human being. I've not yet had to give CPR but my biggest fear with it is the casualty dying and me worrying that I did something wrong, or didn't do it well enough. This video is a huge help. The casualty is virtually dead already, so as long as I do my best then that can only be a good thing. Thanks for this!

[@badcallsign4204]

Right on preach it brother. My initial CPR training was 30 y/ago, but I’ve watched refresher vids. I’m going to take another hands-on class, but in the meantime, if the situation comes up, I’m going to go for it and do my best.

[@jacobmayhew5681]

I just cried. I got an alert on an app called goodSAM which is linked to the ambulance service in New Zealand to help someone as the ambulance was further away than me; I am an advanced first aider. This happened last night and I haven't slept. It was a 3 month old baby dead on the floor when I arrived and I tired my hardest I was praying while I did the CPR until the paramedics arrived but he didn't make it. Im crushed with guilt, sadness and going over and over in my head if I did it right. I cannot let go of it and this video has given me closure. I did not know this person but after the CPR I realised how much I care and love humans no matter what. I will never forget this day. Thank you for some closure and for this video, I can now go to sleep at ease knowing I did everything in my power but it was in gods hands in the end. Despite this I am greiving for a stranger and their family.

[@asma-sr6mv]

I am a third year medical student I have watched this video about a year ago, today was my first time performing a cpr on a cardiac arrest patient, I put my heart on it but it didn't work and he unfortunately died, i cryed my eyes out at the hospital afterwards, it's the first day of Ramadne, my Allah have mercy on him and give strength to his family

[@BlaineNay]

Powerful. I think this might be the most important video you have done. Thanks.

[@jaredkahle]

I've watched this video a lot in the past 2 days, and every time I find a little bigger slice of peace. Thank you sir, for being compassionate, educational, no-BS, direct method of dealing with this. This should be included with any CPR training, I'm finding it hard to find good resources post-CPR from a lay person. This helped a lot. Keep it up.

[@Sepilein1]

damn that was an emotional message that i think should be part of any First Aid course. I always hope that when needed, im not to scared to do cpr, so i try to keep my memory fresh.

[@mobiuskill9298]

I watch your videos often. Helped me gain confidence as a volunteer firefighter and now I'm planning on taking a emt course to further educate myself in this field

[@dfgiuy22]

Thanks for the vid. One of the best spoken video's that explains even when it seems hopeless that it's worth 'trying' even if it doesn't seem like it. Thanks man! It still sucks when it doesn't work but at the end of the day. None of us get off this rock alive... it's just the timing!

[@SuperKissybunny]

Thank you for making this video. I performed CPR on an unresponsive choking victim last week. He was revived at the hospital or en route, but ultimately died due to hypoxia. I haven't been able to sleep for a week and am having flashbacks and sadness. I have no one to talk to who understands how I feel. Others say how wonderful it was that I did it, but I didn't feel wonderful at all when someone I cared about was dead underneath my compressions. It was traumatic and nightmare. I tried with every fiber of my being but had to tell the family it wasn't good enough. Your video brought me to tears. I am glad you made it. I wish I saw this sooner. I can't turn off the feelings of sadness I have yet, but knowing someone else knows how I feel helps. Thank you for all you do and God bless your wife and six kids.

[@derekapollo3775]

Just performed CPR today and the patient died. Man I didn’t imagine the trauma from it but this video really gave me some peace. Still having a issues with it a little bit more about the circumstances and feeling like I could have maybe prevented it if I was faster I could have stopped the fall that caused it. What a crazy experience.

[@Maveranger1]

What an amazing video... offered from the heart and soul. Something I've NEVER heard before OR thought of in training or in performing in life (Volunteer Fire & EMS for a mining company). Thank you kindly. I will be sharing this link with my Brother and Sister Firefighters and coworkers. Thanks for 'thinking' and 'caring' enough...

[@clayton47799]

You have my highest respect, sir.

[@AT-ib1cx]

I am a lead on my Company's ERT team. This is well over due. Thank You. I share this to all.

[@moonmix1210]

Thank you a lot, that was so helpful and useful to know ❤️🌹

[@smillernc]

Thank you. That was beautiful and inspirational.❤

[@Chadley1]

Teary. This was an amazing talk. Thank you.

[@susiewheeler8197]

I was teaching CPR Class so I was required to teach a class My diving instructor was on the phone ,he was my teacher, EMS arrived, knew who I was, trained and tied

[@Smilesalot1023]

Thanks for posting. It really helps. Dealing with this situation/feelings now.

[@KooCheff]

Thank you for your kind job!

[@dfgiuy22]

Dude, went to a job off duty on the way home from work. Went to assist in CPR however there were already 4-6 people assisting. Best I could do was direct incoming appliances/police as the exact address was unknown. I rang dispatch and told them to step it up, it was still a good 15 minutes before proper equipment got there. I won't say it was a 'waste of time' but we need to do better! It just sucks. It's crap but we still need to at least try!

[@pondemonium3746]

Did cpr on a guy that collapsed next to me, and he's certainly dead. I have no clue if it's affecting me. But, it helps knowing that I'm helping make a chance rather than helping them survive.

[@Fatima98z_]

Heart touching speech, thank you sir for all your efforts.

[@amycuaresma]

I am an RN, but last week I was asked by my neighbor to give him a ride to the hospital because he was in Afib. I was there in four minutes. I was walking to the door when he poked his head out and asked for five more minutes. I said "ok" - after ten minutes I started knocking and calling. The door was locked as I think he planned to come out the garage door and that's why he locked his front door I immediately called 911 and broke a window while they where dispatched. I found him on the stairs with no pulse and not breathing. As an ER nurse my training took over and I started CPR, I knew he was already gone. I think he probably had a pulmonary embolism (in addition to poor cardiac health) after he had had a total knee replacement five days prior. I wish I would have went inside or not waited ten minutes. He was dead when I went in but I still did cpr.

[@jacquelineferreria1957]

Thank you. I really needed to hear this today.

[@susiewheeler8197]

God Bless You thank you for your explanation

[@susiewheeler8197]

from saving a I was at a nursing home and prevented(not nursing-kitchen) from saving a choking victim.EMS asked why I didn't help-had to go get help................

[@mauricorivera1199]

Amazing speech!

[@sewingbytes]

Thank you for this.

[@xgvkjghskfhdlskfhdlk]

thank you.

[@EmeraldPencil46]

I remember hearing somewhere that even with perfect CPR, a person will still die 9 times out of 10. All CPR does is either give your body time to try and fix itself, or allows time for a defibrillator to arrive to stop the heart so it can try and get back into a rhythm. Also, I’m fairly sure that defibrillators don’t restart the heart, but rather do the opposite. They try and turn a quivering, irregular heart rate into a flatline so that the body can try and get a proper heart rate back. CPR doesn’t bring a heartbeat back, it just replicates it fairly poorly in the hopes it comes back. It’s unfortunately not some miracle cure, but rather something that hopes for a miracle. Even though it more likely to not work, it’s always better to attempt it than not.

[@syedafatima4265]

I have been thru this fortnight ago, when my dad died in front of my eyes during CPR in hospital CCU. Have been blaming myself if I could do any better and not put him on ventilator, but there is no healing yet!

[@tarajohnson5491]

Thank you. My uncle died Saturday. It was sudden and I did CPR but it didn’t work. It’s been eating me alive that it didn’t work. It’s an overwhelming sense of shame. I needed to hear this.

[@WearingBlackAlways]

Just wondering if there is a way we can estimate how hard can we do chess compressions on different individuals (Adult, child, boy girl, elderly, etc.) It seems that I always either underestimate or overestimate my strength. People will always complaint that my normal grips (ex. handshake) almost dislocate their fingers or broke their hands. If I am too conscious and worried that a person is too delicate, like back massage on a woman - they will complaint that they do not feel anything and when I slightly adjust a little it is too hard.

[@debrakleid5752]

I’ve done CPR about 50 times (yes on real people) and rarely do we get them back. It depends on how long they are down before CPR is started and why they went into cardiac arrest. As a medic we rarely get them back because families don’t usually do CPR before we arrive unfortunately. My youngest patient was a 22 week premie and a 3 year old child. His head was run over by a car. It’s rarely successful like in the movies. I’ve lost track how many times I’ve done it.

[@matokrajniak1901]

I had to give CPR to my dad who had a sudden cardiac arrest ... out of nowhere. I thought he was snoring and went in to check when I found him unconscious, I couldn't feel the pulse and he wasn't breathing...I called screamed for mum and called an ambulance right away, we put him on the ground and I started cpr right away with the dispatcher guiding me ... I tried .... and I tried and I kept going till the ambulance arrived ... he was getting blue and I knew it wasn't good ... but I failed, I didn't save him and I can't shake the feeling of me doing something wrong ... I couldn't save my own father and it keeps eating at me ... maybe I did something wrong, and it's my fault ... im trying to ignore it but I keep having nightmares of it happening over and over again, waking up covered in sweat and in tears ... thanks for this video. I need it.

[@lindseyfloyd2821]

My heart goes out to you and your family. You did what you could. Sending you love!

[@Paraselene_Tao]

You did all you could. Please don't blame yourself.

[@SuperKissybunny]

May God's love pour peace over you.

[@Misanthrope-]

What abou AED? Everything that was said in this video can also be attributed to AED?

[@thatsthewayitis1]

hearing is the last thing to go. so what we say to people, matters. MY MOTHER was talking about who was gonna get my father's THINGS! THATS what he heard last! Let that sink in.

[@Fatima98z_]

Thank you so much. Could you explain how to do CPR on someone with chest deformity or back deformity like kyphosis , please.

[@BattleSymphony349]

when giving mouth to mouth breaths, if you see the chest is rising do you stop the cpr?

[@fionafeatherstone2171]

Thank you for saying it was love…. Tried to save my fir 48 year old husband . But it was his day to die x

[@edmund184]

I wish Richard Clayderman would take a hike

[@marycan5344]

U sound so intelligent

[@nobody86963]

🙏🙏🙏💀🫀🙏🙏🙏