PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Nurse fury at Ryanair as woman dies on flight from Italy
Old 26th Sep 2006, 13:00
  #20 (permalink)  
Mac the Knife

Plastic PPRuNer
 
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Cape Town
Posts: 1,898
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Sounds like this pax coned, so all the CPR in the world wouldn't have made any difference.

I hate to say this, but without suction, a laryngoscope and a cuffed tube CPR of someone who's really not breathing isn't that successful. Like as not the airway is full of vomitus or gastric contents that's hard to clear and keeps coming back. The stomach inflates and it's almost impossible to ventilate someone successfully for long, if at all.

External cardiac massage may keep a bit of circulation going, but it isn't enough. If you can't get at least some spontaneous cardiac output pretty quickly then it's sayonara.

For effective on-the-street CPR you need good ventilation, circulatory access (a drip), the right drugs, a defib, some idea of what you're doing and a lot of luck.

T-shirt, etc.
Mac the Knife is offline