So help me, I worked as a lifeguard this summer and my manager comes in one day and asks me how I would perform cpr on a giraffe and showed me this image.
It was posted on the wall of our break room. Nobody could provide a solid answer.
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Chest compressions >> new air
Get a second person to help on breathing
Get a third to make trading roles easier.
Imagine it waking up and it slithering that tongue down into your stomach.
No thanks, I'm good
I double dare you
Obviously you should be doing compressions only on a giraffe.
Look at how far the blood has to go to get to the brain, you can't afford the time do to rescue breaths.
Plus consider how far the lungs are away from the mouth and how large they are. There's no way your 2 puny exhales have enough pressure to get there, let alone inflate the lungs enough to oxygenate anything.
No, it's abundantly clear you need to do compressions only until someone gets the giraffine AED.
Or do a 2-man rescue and one pumps the chest and the other administers rescue breaths, or more likely just continues blowing constant air to try to get some positive pressure in the airway to fill the lungs.
The real question here i think is what would cause a giraffe to lose a pulse that wouldn't already likely be it's cause of death regardless?
If they choked on something, I doubt they have enough space in their lungs to force it out. Clearing the obstructed airway should be the priority first perhaps by running your hands along the neck, then chest compressions to restart the heart and get blood moving oxygen around.
last time (~ half year ago) they thaught me this they said chest compression is more than enough. there should be enough oxygen in the lungs and blood till professional help arrives, and as you said most of the time airway is blocked in these situations
also most people are extremely unconfortable to blow air through someones nose/mouth, so it incrreases the number of people that are willing to help
at least sa far as i know
Just fyi, chest compressions cannot restart a heart, they can keep blood flowing until an AKG can get it into a normal heartbeat. If the heart is completely stopped, neither compressions or an AKG can do anything.
That settles it: I'm just not in good enough shape to be a zookeeper. I think I'll be a baseball player in stead.
Adding yet another PSA to these comments that it is no longer recommended to pause chest compressions while doing cpr. You should exclusively be doing chest compressions until professional help arrives.
Adding a PSA to state that you shouldn't take medical advice from random people on the Internet.
If you are trained in CPR, follow your training. If your certification has expired you should re-up it. There are legal reasons some training says certain things in different areas and following your training will protect you even if you go to a place with different laws.
Why would you be doing cpr on a giraffe instead of sleeping though?