I think you are right in that she was called a home health aide originally, but as the series continued, they had her as a fully licensed PT.
“Frasier” wasn’t always consistent with it’s characters’ backstories, but in general, they did a better job than most sit-coms.
I’m glad this thread got resurrected. I was going through a season of one of my favorite shows, Psych, had an error so egregious that I shouted at the TV. Usually, when there’s a bit on dramatic license taken on a detail, I can let it go. After all, they exist in a different world than I do[sup]*[/sup]. But there was an episode, Earth, Wind, and…Wait for It, where they were undercover as firefighters. Shawn is questioning a firefighter who is practicing CPR on Gus. At one point, Gus complains about it, and Shawn says (paraphrased), “Gus, you’re destroying the illusion! He has to practice CPR on a living person to get certified!”
You NEVER do CPR on a living person. You could actually cause someone to go into cardiac arrest, and die.
My late father was a career firefighter. Watching movies like Backdraft and Ladder 49 with him could really elevate one’s blood pressure. He got really worked up about the inconsistencies.
So you watched this scene I take it?
If you are doing CPR correctly you will at least be cracking the person’s sternum and probably breaking ribs too.
Anything less is not pushing hard enough.
Good point, Dallas. I was doing CPR on an elderly gentleman once who had suffered a coronary while riding on a tractor, and fell off. I was doing CPR all the way to the hospital, where the gentleman was pronounced dead. We discovered that the fall had caused a very slight flail chest segment, and each compression I did was pushing a portion of bone into the patient’s heart.
Actually, that’s not the case - the risk of damage is very low.
The American Heart Association has recently introduced changes to their CPR guidelines and courses. Some of the changes are to make it so that CPR is initiated quickly once you arrive on the scene - research had found that people spent too long farting around with the person’s airway, checking for breathing and checking for a pulse, and taking too long to start chest compressions. Therefore, they have changed CPR guidelines from ABC (airway, breathing, circulation) to CAB (chest compressions, airway, breathing), and they also eliminate the “look, listen and feel” before starting CPR.
For CPR to be successful, it’s imperative to start compressions ASAP. They recommend that healthcare providers doing CPR spend no longer than 7-10 seconds checking for a pulse before starting CPR, and that laypersons doing CPR shouldn’t even try to find a pulse if someone collapses and is unresponsive and not breathing. Also, once you initiate CPR you don’t bother stopping to recheck the pulse while doing CPR - you continue until EMTs arrive, or the patient wakes up or starts moving. So theoretically if your CPR was successful at resuscitating the patient before EMTs arrive but the patient is still unconscious and unmoving, you would still be doing CPR on them.
Cite from the American Heart Association (my emphasis added):
The citation for the bolded portion can is: White, L., Rogers, J., Bloomingdale, M., Fahrenbruch, C., Culley, L., Subido, C., Eisenberg, M., Rea, T. Dispatcher-assisted cardiopulmonary resuscitation: risks for patients not in cardiac arrest. Circulation. 2010;121:91–97.
Free full-text can be found here. The abstract states (my emphasi added):
I realized that I should have elaborated a bit in my CPR comment. When I said to not do CPR on a living person, I meant a regular person up and walking around. By all means, EMTs and paramedics and the like, should use the utmost speed and care. But to actually perform CPR on someone with a normal, strong pulse has the potential to be harmful.
I suppose I should have went more in depth. Thanks.
I’ve been a practicing EMT for the last 4 years. I’m currently going through my continuation for license renewal.
<fans myself vigorously with my photo of me and james randi for a few seconds, then goes all fangirly and passes out>
I have to beg to differ on this one. I’d have no problem with Daphne living with me for 4+ years.
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Crichton was an astronaut, that meant he was pretty damn bright to start with and would have a general grasp of science. He never showed any special ability in any science until the episode with…well lets just say his brain was messed with by advanced aliens who implanted advanced physics knowledge. After this we see him doing equations, never before.
He learns from the other crew members about Leviathan tech, and he manipulates it on the level they do which is much like a mechanic. In that horrible episode where he is stranded on a planet he becomes a beach bum fisherman, we see no special ability beyond any 20th century astronaut.
Lucky! My husband has a pic with him. Wish I’d been there.
IIRC, the first episode of Matlock had him proving the innocence of his client, but when somebody asked him who did it, I think he responded along the lines of, “I leave finding that to the detectives.” I am fairly certain that none of the other episodes left the crime unsolved.
Like Leopold and Loeb with Leopold’s glasses. They were found near the scene and that kind of hinge on the glasses was only purchased by three people in Chicago.
Or in NJ the police set out to identify a potential suspect with a writing sample based on an advertisement he answered for a penis enhancement product. They would have to go through some 50,000 replies and they found what they wanted on the fifth sample they looked at.
People do get lucky
For lawyers, they rarely show the hours of searching through databases and checking up on citation health.
and the way Zombie Thread hunters are portrayed… why it’s totally unrealistic!
…but this is the JMS zombie thread!
When I did security work in the late 90s, I watched some crappy movie about the first WTC bombing.
One of the characters was some bum (IIRC, he was some Princeton/Harvard/Uof Paris graduate, who was blaming himself for not saving the world from AIDS/Cancer/WWII, etc…). After the bombing, the Security guard ran around asking everybody and their cat “What do I do???” I think he even asked a school teacher and her classroom full of 7 years-old kids who were there for some field trip. The bum?? Of course, he came out of the sky and saved just about everybody in the building, then went on to stop blaming himself and become the Albert Schweitzer that he was destined to be.
So, even bums trump Security Guards in a movie.