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[โ€“] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I believe I read before that rescue breaths are no longer strictly necessary and that chest compressions should be the priority when conducting CPR?

Good news if performing it on a giraffe, then.

[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am not a professional giraffologist, but I suspect any CPR short of repeatedly backing over the giraffeโ€™s chest with a Jeep would be relatively ineffective.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Maybe you could jump on its chest.

But I donโ€™t have a degree in giraffeology.

[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Firstly: Bend its neck so it's face is just down close to you.

Secondly: No need to worry about the breaths part anyhow. CPR now for one person is compressions only. The time it takes for you to do breaths and stop compressions is worse than doing no breaths at all with non stop compressions.

Thirdly: I don't imagine you could do a damn thing with cpr to get blood moving all the way up and around a giraffes brain to help.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bend its neck so it's face is just down close to you.

this closes the airway.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah but it's closed to you.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

This could also be posted out of context with the title "Can't decide to make out with or feel up the passed out giraffe."

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I've noticed quite often that how I'd rather start doing even productive stuff than go to sleep, if I need to go to bed earlier than I'd like to or feel tired.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well I sure hope of the giraffe is passed out that youโ€™d do CPR and not just sleep.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Please don't do CPR on someone/something that has "passed out". O.o

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This post would be better without the "this is DEFINITELY me at 3am ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚" text