Originally Posted By: Bingley
Finally, the victim in question had a stroke, not a cardiac arrest. So the CPR might not have helped.

Huh? Are you implying this person still had a heartbeat? You don't do CPR on someone who has a beating heart. What caused a cardiac arrest - be that stroke, myocardial infarction, drugs, loss of blood volume, whatever - doesn't matter. You still do CPR. True, some causes of cardiac arrest are less survivable than other causes, but that doesn't mean you withhold CPR. For example, cardiac arrest due to trauma is only rarely surviveable, but first responders shouldn't be making a judgement call on that in the field.