Hey FYI The Way They Show CPR On TV Isn't How It Actually Goes. They Can't Do Proper CPR On Actors Because

Hey FYI the way they show CPR on TV isn't how it actually goes. They can't do proper CPR on actors because its dangerous to do it properly on someone whos heart is still beating, but that pathetic soft little gentle chest-press that you see on films and shows? And the way their shoulders move a lot? Yeah, nah.

CPR is hard work. You've got to press the persons chest down one third of the chests depth. Thats not something you can do by pressing gently on a chest. You have to have straight arms, lock your shoulders, and use your whole body weight to press down on the chest. And you have to do it fast. A great song to sing to get the pace right is Staying Alive by the Bee Gees. Easy to remember, because when you're pumping someone's chest to manually manipulate their heart you are gonna be begging that they stay alive.

I really cannot emphasise the importance of learning CPR enough. It's so important. Please learn it. Even if you dont have access to a proper course -- even if you just look some tutorials up on YouTube, and then practice the pumping action on your mattress, that would be better than nothing.

You dont even have to worry about mouth to mouth, if thats a concern for you; most CPR advice these days is to not bother with mouth to mouth unless there are two of you and you're both trained; the action of chest compressions works well enough to compress and expand the lungs that it sort of functions as a two-fer; it beats the heart and it pumps enough air through the lungs that you don't have to do the mouth to mouth part.

Please learn CPR. Please.

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white people aren’t allowed to say poc anymore bc they don’t know the difference between an adjective and a noun. now they have to spell it out, and it’s spelled “PEOPLE OF COLOR,” since a lot of you also don’t know what these abbreviations even stand for

white people can reblog this, especially if you have a lot of white followers


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5 years ago

idk how anyone could argue that clarke is not bellamy’s number one priority. in 5x13, he told clarke he couldn’t leave his friends behind because he couldn’t do that again, referencing leaving her behind in 4x13. he couldn’t leave them behind because of his ptsd from leaving clarke. this is canon. and even though he did end up “leaving” his so-called family in 6x08, it was for clarke. it is literally canon that bellamy will not leave his family behind because of his ptsd from leaving clarke behind unless it’s to save clarke. his priority is her. he loves the rest of them, but he would choose her over them in a heartbeat, and he has. idc what jason says. bellamy says to clarke in 6x11, “how do we save everyone that i left behind?”, meaning that he put their safety aside while saving clarke and now has to find a way to save them. their safety came after clarke’s.

so, it’s honestly so funny to me that none of them were angry about that. you would think that the people who were attacking clarke in 6a would call bellamy out for choosing her over them, but they didn’t. murphy didn’t because he felt guilty about choosing himself and emori over clarke. emori didn’t because she also felt guilty. neither of them would have had a leg to stand on. raven didn’t because she was conveniently not around for Plot Reasons. and then e/cho didn’t because she just goes along with whatever bellamy does. four people who are canonically bellamy’s family have not said anything to bellamy about him choosing clarke over them…hm, almost like jroth is not fully committing to the story he’s writing…which is just so frustrating!! there is so much potential. it’s not that there aren’t good moments still in this show. there are, but things still fall flat at times because he doesn’t follow through.

let bellamy find out that his girlfriend tried to murder clarke!! let bellamy realize that e/cho is not this “changed” person and that he fell in love with a lie!! let bellamy find out he doesn’t even know his gf’s actual name!! let e/cho be upset that bellamy chose another woman over her!! let raven call bellamy out for not being as devoted to e/cho as he is to clarke!! let e/cho and clarke just be two people who tolerate each other because of bellamy because that hug came out of fucking nowhere. let clarke find out that bellamy poisoned his sister for her!! let bellamy ask clarke how she could radio him every day for six years and then leave him to die in the fighting pits instead of deleting that line/scene out of the show even though it was in the fucking trailer. let them talk about what those six years without each other did to them!! let them realize why it really is that they have always needed each other!! let clarke tell bellamy that she radioed him every day because she’s in love with him!! let bellamy tell clarke that a part of him died when she did because he’s in love with her too!! let this story fucking progress somewhere already!! it’s beautiful, but jroth is not letting it reach its full potential, and i swear to god, if he doesn’t come through with them in s7, then literally what was the point of any of this???

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4 years ago

Writing Traumatic Injuries References

So, pretty frequently writers screw up when they write about injuries. People are clonked over the head, pass out for hours, and wake up with just a headache… Eragon breaks his wrist and it’s just fine within days… Wounds heal with nary a scar, ever…

I’m aiming to fix that.

Here are over 100 links covering just about every facet of traumatic injuries (physical, psychological, long-term), focusing mainly on burns, concussions, fractures, and lacerations. Now you can beat up your characters properly!

General resources

WebMD

Mayo Clinic first aid

Mayo Clinic diseases

First Aid

PubMed: The source for biomedical literature

Diagrams: Veins (towards heart), arteries (away from heart) bones, nervous system, brain

Burns

General overview: Includes degrees

Burn severity: Including how to estimate body area affected

Burn treatment: 1st, 2nd, and 3rd degrees

Smoke inhalation

Smoke inhalation treatment

Chemical burns

Hot tar burns

Sunburns

Incisions and Lacerations

Essentials of skin laceration repair (including stitching techniques)

When to stitch (Journal article—Doctors apparently usually go by experience on this)

More about when to stitch (Simple guide for moms)

Basic wound treatment

Incision vs. laceration: Most of the time (including in medical literature) they’re used synonymously, but eh.

Types of lacerations: Page has links to some particularly graphic images—beware!

How to stop bleeding: 1, 2, 3

Puncture wounds: Including a bit about what sort of wounds are most likely to become infected

More about puncture wounds

Wound assessment: A huge amount of information, including what the color of the flesh indicates, different kinds of things that ooze from a wound, and so much more.

Home treatment of gunshot wound, also basics More about gunshot wounds, including medical procedures

Tourniquet use: Controversy around it, latest research

Location pain chart: Originally intended for tattoo pain, but pretty accurate for cuts

General note: Deeper=more serious. Elevate wounded limb so that gravity draws blood towards heart. Scalp wounds also bleed a lot but tend to be superficial. If it’s dirty, risk infection. If it hits the digestive system and you don’t die immediately, infection’ll probably kill you. Don’t forget the possibility of tetanus! If a wound is positioned such that movement would cause the wound to gape open (i.e. horizontally across the knee) it’s harder to keep it closed and may take longer for it to heal.

Broken bones

Types of fractures

Setting a broken bone when no doctor is available

Healing time of common fractures

Broken wrists

Broken ankles/feet

Fractured vertebrae: Neck (1, 2), back

Types of casts

Splints

Fracture complications

Broken noses

Broken digits: Fingers and toes

General notes: If it’s a compound fracture (bone poking through) good luck fixing it on your own. If the bone is in multiple pieces, surgery is necessary to fix it—probably can’t reduce (“set”) it from the outside. Older people heal more slowly. It’s possible for bones to “heal” crooked and cause long-term problems and joint pain. Consider damage to nearby nerves, muscle, and blood vessels.

Concussions

General overview

Types of concussions 1, 2

Concussion complications

Mild Brain Injuries: The next step up from most severe type of concussion, Grade 3

Post-concussion syndrome

Second impact syndrome: When a second blow delivered before recovering from the initial concussion has catastrophic effects. Apparently rare.

Recovering from a concussion

Symptoms: Scroll about halfway down the page for the most severe symptoms

Whiplash

General notes: If you pass out, even for a few seconds, it’s serious. If you have multiple concussions over a lifetime, they will be progressively more serious. Symptoms can linger for a long time.

Character reaction:

Shock (general)

Physical shock: 1, 2

Fight-or-flight response: 1, 2

Long-term emotional trauma: 1 (Includes symptoms), 2

First aid for emotional trauma

Treatment (drugs)

WebMD painkiller guide

Treatment (herbs)

1, 2, 3, 4

Miscellany

Snake bites: No, you don’t suck the venom out or apply tourniquettes

Frostbite

Frostbite treatment

Severe frostbite treatment

When frostbite sets in: A handy chart for how long your characters have outside at various temperatures and wind speeds before they get frostbitten

First aid myths: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Includes the ones about buttering burns and putting snow on frostbite.

Poisons: Why inducing vomiting is a bad idea

Poisonous plants

Dislocations: Symptoms 1, 2; treatment. General notes: Repeated dislocations of same joint may lead to permanent tissue damage and may cause or be symptomatic of weakened ligaments. Docs recommend against trying to reduce (put back) dislocated joint on your own, though information about how to do it is easily found online.

Muscular strains

Joint sprain

Resuscitation after near-drowning: 1, 2

Current CPR practices: We don’t do mouth-to-mouth anymore.

The DSM IV, for all your mental illness needs.

Electrical shock

Human response to electrical shock: Includes handy-dandy voltage chart

Length of contact needed at different voltages to cause injury

Evaluation protocol for electric shock injury

Neurological complications

Electrical and lightning injury

Cardiac complications

Delayed effects and a good general summary

Acquired savant syndrome: Brain injuries (including a lightning strike) triggering development of amazing artistic and other abilities

Please don’t repost! You can find the original document (also created by me) here.


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4 years ago

Sean Monterrosa was a 22 year old hispanic man. He was shot and killed yesterday by a police officer who fired through his squad car windshield 5 times, killing Sean while he was kneeling on the ground with his HANDS UP. The officer "mistook the hammer in his pocket for a gun" and decided to shoot him with no reasoning. His hands were up, he was complying.

Sean Monterrosa Was A 22 Year Old Hispanic Man. He Was Shot And Killed Yesterday By A Police Officer

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I love how the fandom as a whole has just decided that Bellamy is not dead with zero evidence


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So we just gonna act like maze runner wasn’t the most tragic love story of the decade

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