The other day, my wife came home and was telling me about a baby that she had kept alive at work. She mentioned something called an "APGAR" score, and it got me thinking about that conversation over that supposed miracle that Huggy was going on about.
http://kidshealth.org/parent/pregnancy_c...apgar.html
The "P" stands for pulse. As soon as she started talking about giving compressions, I immediately felt so stupid for allowing that detail in Huggy's story to just slip by unaddressed. The lady in Huggy's story "had no pulse for 45 minutes". For Christ's sake, I'm a certified CPR instructor and if there was a single thing I should've pointed out was that a person can have no pulse, but that doesn't mean their heart isn't being pumped by someone else. I went back and read the article that Huggy provided, and sure enough, it says plain as day "Despite having no pulse for 45 minutes, she had no neurological damage, no bruises from the chest compressions,." Her heart was not beating on it's own, but the compressions were pumping the blood for her. I got curious, is this even the longest amount of time a person has lived without a pulse? Nope, not even close.
"The next morning, Franko woke up with full brain function and he was able to go home ten days later."
After 2 hours and 45 minutes of being "dead".Was it God? No, it was human beings and their technology.
"He had no heart beat and was kept alive with the help of the LUCAS device. In addition, he received a total of 32 shocks to his chest."
https://www.healthpartners.com/public/ne...-2013.html
You can't even begin CPR until you're certain the victim doesn't have a pulse. I don't know why this didn't occur to me earlier, but, there ya go Huggy. Is it still amazing? Sure, but it's not magic. People save people all the time.
http://kidshealth.org/parent/pregnancy_c...apgar.html
The "P" stands for pulse. As soon as she started talking about giving compressions, I immediately felt so stupid for allowing that detail in Huggy's story to just slip by unaddressed. The lady in Huggy's story "had no pulse for 45 minutes". For Christ's sake, I'm a certified CPR instructor and if there was a single thing I should've pointed out was that a person can have no pulse, but that doesn't mean their heart isn't being pumped by someone else. I went back and read the article that Huggy provided, and sure enough, it says plain as day "Despite having no pulse for 45 minutes, she had no neurological damage, no bruises from the chest compressions,." Her heart was not beating on it's own, but the compressions were pumping the blood for her. I got curious, is this even the longest amount of time a person has lived without a pulse? Nope, not even close.
"The next morning, Franko woke up with full brain function and he was able to go home ten days later."
After 2 hours and 45 minutes of being "dead".Was it God? No, it was human beings and their technology.
"He had no heart beat and was kept alive with the help of the LUCAS device. In addition, he received a total of 32 shocks to his chest."
https://www.healthpartners.com/public/ne...-2013.html
You can't even begin CPR until you're certain the victim doesn't have a pulse. I don't know why this didn't occur to me earlier, but, there ya go Huggy. Is it still amazing? Sure, but it's not magic. People save people all the time.
