WI CPR was discovered in ancient times?

how many more leaders or soldiers will live on to serve longer. who would be saved? how would the world be different?

For a POD lets say that the following person discovdered it, this is the earliest major physician I could find:

Alcmaeon of Crotona (fl. c535 BCE)
He is regarded as one of the earliest pioneers in medical science. His studies in natural philosophy, biology, anatomy, and pathological and physical aspects of internal disease have been influential. He is credited as having been the originator of experimental psychology.
 

mowque

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the issue is, CPR only makes sense in the larger context of our knowledge of medicine...how much else does this fellow know?
 
the issue is, CPR only makes sense in the larger context of our knowledge of medicine...how much else does this fellow know?

...As a matter of fact it's bloody useless without a larger context. CPR does not and - with very rare exceptions - cannot bring somebody back to life. The way my NLS instructor explained it was:

You are not bringing him back to life. You are not even keeping him alive. You are keeping his tissues warm and viable so the paramedics can bring him back to life.
 
There are two parts to CPR, artificial respiration and chest compression. The former is useful when the person is not breathing. This could be very useful in ancient times. However the purpose of the full CPR is to save people suffering from cardiac arrest. The use of respiration and chest compression is all designed to keep the person's brain oxygenated until a defibrillator can be employed to restart the heart. CPR rarely restart the heart by itself.
 
What others have said; most of the time all it could really accomplish is keeping people technically alive for another thirty seconds. Also, CPR is far less successful than movies and TV think; IIRC it has a 5-10% success rate even when backed up by the latest medical technology.
 
What others have said; most of the time all it could really accomplish is keeping people technically alive for another thirty seconds. Also, CPR is far less successful than movies and TV think; IIRC it has a 5-10% success rate even when backed up by the latest medical technology.

I know i am an sfa instructor.
however there is a chance.

and your sucess rate is way off. that is w/o tech.

it is on average with an aed about 30%.

if you get the aed on instantly it is 90% chance and it drops by 10% every minute they are "dead" (there are two types of death, clinical and biological) without any assistance.
 
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