The latest issue of Dinosaur Comics has a handy mnemonic for getting your chest compression rate just right...
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Grand Rounds Hosted Here - February 3, 2009
Grand Rounds is a weekly collection of the best writing in the medical blogosphere. I was delighted to host Volume 5, no. 20 here on February 3rd, 2009.
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- The Samurai Radiologist
- The Samurai Radiologist has spent more than 20 years as a diagnostic radiologist, most of them professing at various university medical centers. The "samurai" part is a nod to the late, great John Belushi, whose samurai skits on Saturday Night Live featured a samurai with a day job in some other field, such as dry-cleaning or a delicatessen. The plot usually gave him some hilarious job-related excuse to use his sword. Since much of medical imaging (e.g. CT and MR) involves digital "cuts" through the body in various planes, I always hoped to someday see him portray a "samurai radiologist". I guess I'll just have to play that role myself.
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2 comments:
I got to try compressions on a gomer with severe COPD during anesthesiology rotation. I felt kinda weird as I was going "AAAND a-NOTHER-one DOWN, and a-NOTHER-one DOWN, a-NOTHER-one BITES the DUST" in my head, especially afterwards seeing as the poor guy didn't make it.
You may have heard that the Bee Gees hit "Stayin' Alive" will do the same? It was all over blogs some months ago. Maybe I'll try that next time and see if it helps. :)
Also, if you sing "Row, row, row your boat" two times in a row and then do two ventilations, you get both a 30:2 compression-ventilation ratio and perfect pace.
As a Red Cross CPR instructor, we like to teach the "Stayin' Alive" beat. The ARC feels that singin "Another One Bites the Dust" while doing CPR might convey the wrong message to on-lookers! :)
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