# Ever perform CPR? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 13, 2005, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-perform-cpr/321412 "2005-09-13T10:44:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2005, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-perform-cpr/321412/21 "2005-09-14T03:43:43Z")
Why should I? I’m not an accountant. ---
**Author:** ![Pixisis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@Pixisis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixisis)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2005, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-perform-cpr/321412/22 "2005-09-14T05:32:55Z")
> [@davmilasav](#): > > I’m surprised by the people doing pet CPR. How do you get a good airtight seal on the muzzle? Or do you use the nose instead? You hold the muzzle closed with your hand around it to seal the lips and use the nose. This was actually taught (well told to us) as part of our training when i first took CPR, oh about 28 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2005, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-perform-cpr/321412/23 "2005-09-14T06:57:19Z")
I initiated CPR on my Father after a massive coronary in McCarran airport, Las Vegas a year ago this month. He had just taken his shoes off in preparation for passing through the X-ray and metal detectors while I removed my belt when he grabbed his chest and fell over. I immediately fell down before him and checked his carotid pulse. I yelled frantically that he had no pulse. I looked into his eyes in his last moments of life while checking his pulse and told him, “I love you, Dad.” I cradled his neck and prepared for mouth to mouth when airport security and a person from the crowd pushed me away and began mouth to mouth and compression. Within 7 minutes Airport EMS arrived and began defribilation and CPR. They worked on him nearly 45 minutes. They stopped. I yelled, “He can’t breathe, he needs to breathe!” They continued CPR and took him to the ambulance. He was declared dead on arrival. I am sorry for the brevity and matter of factness but I am crying. This is all I can really say. ---
**Author:** ![Pixisis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@Pixisis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixisis)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2005, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-perform-cpr/321412/24 "2005-09-14T07:01:55Z")
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**Author:** ![Mellivora\_capensis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mellivora\_capensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mellivora_capensis)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2005, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-perform-cpr/321412/25 "2005-09-14T08:39:06Z")
**davmilasav** , what **Pixisis** said. I was taught this when I worked for a while at the SPCA. Understandably, getting an airtight seal is more difficult on dogs than humans, but with two hands it is possible. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2005, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-perform-cpr/321412/26 "2005-09-14T13:24:07Z")
I am so sorry to hear your news. I am searching hard for words. You did so well, I wish it had been enough! Sending supporting thoughts your way. ---
**Author:** ![St.Urho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e7dd6/32.png) [@St.Urho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/St.Urho)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2005, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-perform-cpr/321412/27 "2005-09-14T13:48:32Z")
> [@NurseCarmen](#): > > The one that I saw used TALKED! (I am such a techno geek that I thought to myself that one of them would be cool to have) Most, if not all of them talk. We can actually make our Lifepack12 monitor-defibrillators talk if we want. Also, properly done CPR almost always will break ribs. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-perform-cpr/321412.md?page=1)