traumatic cardiac arrest in a child

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Hello: I just finished EMT-B class 3 weeks ago...cirriculum hasn't changed. 
We can stop if obvious physicial deficit is present..rigor mortis,
decapitation...otherwise, pump on until told to stop, become exhausted, or
very obvious symptoms of death appear.  By the way, we were also taught that
peds compensate well for a while then decompensate quickly..the Monday morning
quarterback says the patient was more than likely lost upon arrival of rescue
people.
Dave Bleam

On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 09:32:09 -0500 Christopher Massa <cmassa1@jhu.edu> wrote:

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> I
> wouldn’t dare profess that this is still
> true, but the last time I
> checked, it was being taught in EMT-B and first
> responder curricula that
> performing CPR for a traumatic arrest was
> correct.  I always wondered why they
> bothered to
> do that (other than the aforementioned
> “self treatment” found in
> doing something “helpful”). 
> Has the curriculum changed? 
> If not, does anyone have another answer as to
> why its
> taught?
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> CM

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