alt Hacker NewsCan you please follow the site guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) when posting here, including these ones?
"Don't be snarky."
"Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community." (Edit: ok, maybe I was overinterpreting your comment a little bit on this one.)
If instead of posting this you had taken the time to click on https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bookofjoe, you would already know that bookofjoe worked for 38 years as a neurosurgical anesthesiologist.
Sorry, that blows my mind more. This advice is twenty plus years out of date. It had been large discredited before I even began as a lowly EMT in the early 2000s. It doesn't help. It's actually more likely to do more harm than good. And I realize I'm a retired paramedic arguing with a physician, but at the very least:
Doing compressions at 60/minute is not going to resuscitate your patient if they are in cardiac arrest. Ever.
https://cpr.heart.org/en/resuscitation-science/cpr-and-ecc-g...
> 3. For adults in cardiac arrest, it is reasonable for rescuers to perform chest compressions at a rate of 100 to 120/min.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8152146/ "Clinical outcomes and safety of passive leg raising in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a randomized controlled trial":
> In this trial, PLR during CPR did not improve survival to hospital discharge
Sorry, dang, but while not litigating this - the advice in this post is outdated, and factually inaccurate, and entirely likely to cause actual harm when performed by a layperson.