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CPR marathon

By Chris Jefferies
November 3, 2009 at 6:50 pm

Whilst casually browsing Facebook today (in my lunch break, of course), I came across this crazy venture: http://www.justgiving.com/eufasadult chest compress.jpeg

Students at Edinburgh University First Aid Society are planning to carry out cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on a dummy.

For two whole days.

Anyone who’s done a first aid course before will know what a challenge this is! For those that haven’t, CPR involves pushing on someone’s chest if they are not breathing. You need to depress the chest around 4-5cm each time. This requires quite a bit of force! Normally on our first aid courses we ask people to do CPR for around 3 minutes (not 2 days!).

Of course whilst they do this they’ll be raising valuable funds for the Red Cross. They also plan to teach members of the public lifesaving skills and spread the message about the importance of first aid.

Personally though, I think I’ll stick to jumping out a plane…

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  • http://redcross.org.uk/ Katrina Crew

    Two DAYS?! Their biceps are gonna be incredible. Forget boxing classes and yoga; do CPR!

    Chris, do you know of any first aid techniques that work the abs and glutes?

  • http://redcross.org.uk Katrina Crew

    Two DAYS?! Their biceps are gonna be incredible. Forget boxing classes and yoga; do CPR!

    Chris, do you know of any first aid techniques that work the abs and glutes?

  • http://www.redcross.org.uk/ Chris Jefferies

    Katrina, yes…I think we should have CPR dummies in gyms. Would be a great workout!

    I’m afraid I can’t think of anything else off the top of my head…its back to the diet for me.

  • http://www.redcross.org.uk Chris Jefferies

    Katrina, yes…I think we should have CPR dummies in gyms. Would be a great workout!

    I’m afraid I can’t think of anything else off the top of my head…its back to the diet for me.

  • http://www.redcross.org.uk/ Tim Kerby

    Thanks for promoting this event :)

    As for other exercises I can think of

    - The spinal board lift (with varying casualty weights)
    - The carry chair stair climb (hmm perhaps going the wrong way on an escalator)
    - The resus run (across a field with bags of kit)
    - The wheelchair push
    - The recovery race (two lines of people acting unconscious and having to put each in the recovery position)

  • http://www.redcross.org.uk Tim Kerby

    Thanks for promoting this event :)

    As for other exercises I can think of

    - The spinal board lift (with varying casualty weights)
    - The carry chair stair climb (hmm perhaps going the wrong way on an escalator)
    - The resus run (across a field with bags of kit)
    - The wheelchair push
    - The recovery race (two lines of people acting unconscious and having to put each in the recovery position)

  • http://www.schaufensterpuppe24.com/ Ateeq

    I’m afraid I can’t think of anything else off the top of my head. Forget boxing classes and yoga; do CPR!

  • http://www.schaufensterpuppe24.com Ateeq

    I’m afraid I can’t think of anything else off the top of my head. Forget boxing classes and yoga; do CPR!

  • Murcv001

    i THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT TO LEARN CPR U NEVER KNOW WHEN YOU WILL NEED IT…

  • Murcv001

    people need to learn the basics of the recovery position and cpr, after all, their just basic first aid skills, but it could by time and save aomeones life.

  • Adame001

    I so agree, it's all about bying time

  • Amarantal

    I think you will find that a team of 4 professional Ambulance personal from the West Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust hold the world record for CPR at 151 hours. This was set some years ago and the team came from Monyhull Ambulance station in Birmingham

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Chris is a young volunteer in Surrey. He teaches first aid and does first aid at events.

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