If proper CPR involves compressing the chest so much such that the ribcage might break - doesnt that breakage risks a bone puncturing the heart?

  • Norgur@discuss.tchncs.de
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    11 months ago

    You need to always remember that the patient in such a situation is at the lowest possible point. You cannot make “dead” any worse. So “risks” don’t apply in that moment.

    Or, as a paramedic I knew said when someone asked him about the same question: “Whatever happens, it won’t kill him”