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Sudden Death and the Myth of CPR 1st Edition

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Sudden Death and the Myth of CPR is for anyone who has taken a CPR course or who believes the images from television dramas. It is also for families of victims and survivors of CPR. It will engage emergency personnel, others in the medical field, and anyone concerned with ethical issues of death and dying.

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9781566397162
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978-1566397162
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Temple University Press
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July 19, 1999
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English
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6 x 0.8 x 9 inches
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256 pages
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1566397162
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Temple University Press; 1st edition (July 19, 1999)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781566397162
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1566397162
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.8 x 9 inches

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Stefan Timmermans is a professor of sociology at UCLA. He has written books on medical technologies, research methods, and death and dying.

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Dr RE Hodgson

Required reading for "Grey's Anatomy" fans

Reviewed in the United States on March 10, 2013

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Outstanding book exposing the farce that CPR has become. Popular TV series are resulting in innumerable people at the natural end of their lives being tortured to an undignified death in the futile quest to prolong a semblance of life as long as possible. The fact that the prolongation profits hospitals, Pharma and doctors doesn't help.

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Awesome! I recommend this book to any one who deals with CPR in a prehospital setting or emergency room.

Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2013

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I recommend this book to any one who deals with CPR in a prehospital setting or emergency room. It does a great job in explaining the history of CPR as well.

Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2001

I loved this book. It is on a painful topic but it answered some nagging questions for me. My mother died unexpectedly and I never forgave my father for not staying with her during her last moments and always wondered why CPR did not keep her alive. This book provided some answers. It is informative and compassionate.

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Drawing dangerous conclusions from data

Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2021

This author argues that because people often do not survive out of hospital cardiac arrests, that we should not do CPR, that it does more harm than good. I am someone who survived out of hospital cardiac arrest almost 30 years ago. I am glad that my rescuers had not read this book. I survived, cognitively intact. It is true that only about 10% of out of hospital cardiac arrests survive. But when the arrest is witnessed survival rates run between 40 and 50% in major cities such as Minneapolis. This is because someone starts CPR to buy time and calls 911. Survival rates have increased with more AEDs, mechanized CPR approaches, therapeutic hypothermia, rapid access to cath labs. In early days of CPR few people survived. Now more do and with improved approaches more will survive. I am administrator of a Facebook group of almost 5000 cardiac arrest survivors. There are other groups with members who have specific genetic arrhythmia disorders or specific cardiomyopathies (weakening of the heart muscle. Most of these are US residents. There is also a large UK group. This author does not fully understand the data that he presents and does not understand how survival has changed. Absolutely there are times that DNR orders are in place or that people should not be resuscitated. But he does a poor job of analyzing the information.

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David Graham

A Candid Appraisal of CPR in America

Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2000

Of the roughly 400,000 "sudden deaths" in the United States each year, only about 1-3% of those undergoing CPR outside the hospital survive. This low figure of survival is accompanied by a high price tag, both economically and emotionally. Timmermans takes a candid look at CPR, exposing its myths and problematic areas, and I found his book historically well researched and balanced. I do have some reservations about some of the misleading statements he makes in chapter 5, especially his mistake of treating 'social inequality' as a synonym for 'unjust', accompanied by the false implication that social value affects survival during a hospital resuscitation effort. On the whole, however, he does a fine job and his extensive historical research and interviews with health care workers make this a fine book. It serves as an excellent antidote to the overly optimistic expectations generated by TV shows and CPR training courses.

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Matthew J. Bayan

"The Dignity of Sudden Death"? Give Me A Break!

Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2000

Though Timmermans brings up many valid issues in this book, I disagree strongly with the idea of "restoration of dignity to sudden death". This seems like a make-nice way of saying not to upset family members with chest smacking and electric jolts of defibrillation.
Please! Dignity is for bystanders who don't want their sensibilities upset, not for the guy on the stretcher. I know. I was that guy. I may hold the world record for being revived. During a massive heart attack, I was defibrillated 72 times. It took almost three hours of work to bring me back. And guess what? I wasn't the slightest bit concerned with dignity. I just wanted them to keep working until they got me back.
Did I care if my chest was fried from the voltage? No.
Did I care that they stripped me and half a dozen people were handling me? No.
All I cared about was getting back so I could see my wife and I didn't give a tinker's damn what they did to me. Now, it's five years later and I am healthy.
Yes, only a fraction of people who arrest survive resuscitation. But some do. Resuscitation, by definition, is a last-ditch, desperate measure. Admittedly, most victims won't make it. But that's not why we do it. We do it for the ones who DO make it....

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Goldie

CPR IS NOT A MYTH

Reviewed in the United States on December 20, 2013

CPR helped bring my Grandma back to life when she went into cardiac arrest. If she hadn't received immediate CPR by trained people, it is highly doubtful that she would still be with us here today. CPR may work in only 5% of cases in the absence of a defibrillator, but my Grandma is in this lucky 5. That is why I strongly disagree with the premiss of this book that CPR is a mostly worthless and ineffective technique. It may work in only 5 to 20% of cases - but it sometimes does work beautifully - and for those for whom it does, and for their families, it makes all the difference! My Grandma is living proof of that!

CPR is not a technique that should be abandoned, but a technique that should be taught properly to many more people than it currently is. Had the lady who performed CPR on my Grandma with me and I not been trained in it, we never would have been able to help my Grandma. It took us 2 minutes to revive her. It took the ambulance 10 minutes to arrive on that snowy day. Brain death ensues in only around 4 minutes of a cardiac arrest, if CPR is not initiated right away. Had we waited for the paramedics, without initiating CPR ourselves right away, it could have been too late for my Grandma.

Ignore this book. Find a good CPR teacher and learn the technique. Renew your CPR certificate whenever it expires. You may think it's a useless technique, as I used to think (because this book misled me). But it could just help you save someone's life someday, when you least expect it - maybe even the life of someone you love.

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