Ugh, I was just about to have breakfast...and I just read your "...fountain of half digested blood that went about 2-3 feet in the air..." comment. <gulp> I think I'll pass on breakfast for a while. <img src="/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

But, having never been around anyone ever needing CPR, it's good to hear some feedback from people with experience about what we lay people may face. For a few years now, since first reading scientific evidence that shows the effectiveness of compression-only CPR, I decided that I would stick with compression-only CPR. That's around when I moved back to San Francisco for a few years and got a job downtown, where you see tons of homeless, drug addicts, and mentally ill people all the time. (Interestingly, I had just moved from Manhattan, where you see only see a fraction of what you see in SF) Most people wouldn't touch them with a ten-foot pole, and maybe when crunch time came, I wouldn't either, but hey, they're human beings, too, and I tried to mentally prepare myself to not waste time deciding and just get to doing compression-only CPR and hope EMS gets there quickly. That kind of situation is a tough call and one we can only make for ourselves.

Anyway, figured I should mentally rehearse one way for everybody instead of facing the prospect of doing nothing at all because I didn't want to do mouth-to-mouth. It shouldn't make a difference if the lady on the ground is young, pretty, blond, and has big boobs...it shouldn't...it--boy, she's a looker, aint' she?... <clunk!> Another one upside the head for Arney, perhaps from Susan. <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />