Feels a little pessimistic to be humming “Another One Bites the Dust” while performing chest compressions. Try using “Stayin’ Alive” by the Bee Gees. Slightly more optimistic and also a 100 BPM song.

Yeah it's changed since I learnt mate. The song 'Another one bites the dust' by Queen is the perfect rhythm.

We have had female chests in Australia for at least a decade. [ sorry cannot edit here, only delete, don't know why ]

Not picking a fight, just injecting some levity, pointing out the song titles. Wife’s a nurse, I was a first aid/CPR trainer.

l like that they are no longer emphasising the breathing part of CPR..l broke the neck on my dummy when doing my test because l could not get down properly to do that section, well at least from the left hand side of Mannequin..but better the neck of the CPR dummy than a human..

We learned it with the Bee Gees song staying alive appropriate title and perfect rythm 120 bpm

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The amount of compressions has increased but we still do the breathing, just not after 15 compressions but after 30. In fact I have my advanced life support (ACLS) next week.

Todd, I wouldn't be humming anything if doing compressions, it's extremely tiring to do CPR. My Dad is a paramedic and he taught me that song. There's plenty of 100bpm songs. This one is well known and in no way offensive anyone if all I'm doing is counting the beat in my head.

Can't deny that... Her story is like one of those things that run around on Twitter like "don't be sad omg you're so sexy" or "don't deactivate omg you're so pretty" that some fuckboys use..

It is Weird! But humans are weird.

But doesn't lack of practice on a big chest mean a big chested person is less likely to be saved? Mmmh, maybe I'm over reacting here, but maybe they need to practise on a variety of dolls of different shapes and sizes (child and baby sizes included)

Daria B these days there are all kinds of resuscitation dummy's, including babies and small children. In answer to your question, no the big chested person would receive same approach. Hands clasped on top of one another and place over sternum and get pumping. I'm not sure if you mean "big breasts or a big chest in general"? Both would require same technique.

I see, Han. Thanks for the clarification.

I wonder if practising only on male chests makes people less likely/too embarassed to try it on a woman in need though.

Well, so better to learn with the difficult issue. How do they expect to safe women if only they practise with easier things?

There is actually research showing that women are less likely to be saved due to people feeling uncomfortable doing compressions on a person with breasts. Therefore there are dummys with add on breasts to be practiced on.

The reason people are uncomfortable on woman is not that they dont know how but they are scard of being seen as pervs for touching boobs. The stigma and sexualization of breasts are the problem

It was the 1880's.

Death masks were a common practice before the advent and affordability of photography. Death masks and post-mortem photography were often the only way the living could remember the faces of the dead. This girl's serene expression was what captivated the mortician. She has an enigmatic smile, like that of the Mona Lisa.

Not to mention that there’s still a remote chance it wasn’t suicide. Any idea just how heavy long skirts and multiple petticoats can be, and how hard it would be to move legs tangled in them? Not to mention she probably had never learned to swim (women didn’t have the chance to—-no streamlined swimsuits as we know them, and what “bathing costumes” existed were only a fraction less heavy and cumbersome as street clothes, and not meant for actual swimming). If she was pushed, or given something to knock her out then thrown in the water, that makes it murder. A possibility to ponder.

The mask was because of the beauty and the oxymoron in the combination of her sense of peace whilst she had died by suicide. Apparently quite rare. Slightly more artistic motivation that "she is so beautiful "

Cora was that comment for me or the girl thats comment Ive replied to? 🤨

PieFace I certainly don't

Are you the one in every group where people groan when you speak because you're not happy until you tell everyone that you know everything? 1) Everyone knows the (now outdated Mouth to Mouth for laypeople) isn't kissing...it's simply a turn of phrase. 2) Who cares that it's the face of a woman on a "man's body", if you've ever done CPR, you'll know it's quite difficult to do around breasts and not conducive to learning to do CPR if you've never done it before.