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We have a house tradition: whenever someone is doing CPR on TV, Russ comments on whether or not they are doing it right. They almost never are, apparently. Not even on Grey's Anatomy.
Yesterday afternoon, Russ was driving back to his office from an errand and he sees a car at the side of road, rolling backwards slowly. It is occupied. He pulls over and finds an unconscious driver - no breath, no pulse. Russ calls 911 and starts CPR. As he is doing CPR, he keeps thinking that whoever designed the dummies for the first aid classes really knew what they were doing.
Paramedics arrive. Police arrive. The man now has a pulse, but he probably had a massive coronary and it doesn't look good. Russ leaves work early; breaks out the video games, beer, and take-out menus. His best friend and I tell him how great he is, how he did everything he could, how he couldn't have done anything else...
The phone rings while we're waiting for the Chinese food to arrive. I guess the cops always call people who were on scene for these kinds of incidents to tell them what happened and to arrange to receive their written statement. The man had suffered a complete arterial blockage. He survived.
Russ saved someone's life yesterday. Now he can really critique those TV doctors.
Yesterday afternoon, Russ was driving back to his office from an errand and he sees a car at the side of road, rolling backwards slowly. It is occupied. He pulls over and finds an unconscious driver - no breath, no pulse. Russ calls 911 and starts CPR. As he is doing CPR, he keeps thinking that whoever designed the dummies for the first aid classes really knew what they were doing.
Paramedics arrive. Police arrive. The man now has a pulse, but he probably had a massive coronary and it doesn't look good. Russ leaves work early; breaks out the video games, beer, and take-out menus. His best friend and I tell him how great he is, how he did everything he could, how he couldn't have done anything else...
The phone rings while we're waiting for the Chinese food to arrive. I guess the cops always call people who were on scene for these kinds of incidents to tell them what happened and to arrange to receive their written statement. The man had suffered a complete arterial blockage. He survived.
Russ saved someone's life yesterday. Now he can really critique those TV doctors.
