A 'natural death' may be preferable for many than enduring CPR

Re:A 'natural death' may be preferable for many than endurin... by basisword on Monday May 29, 2023 @04:35PM (#36117791)

What use is this information though to someone performing CPR? It’s important in the sense that maybe better techniques can be developed but if I need CPR it doesn’t matter one bit if the person doing it knows it’s success rate. In fact probably better they don’t know. If they know the odds are low perhaps they’ll give up too soon.

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Re:A 'natural death' may be preferable for many than endurin... by WJW on Monday May 29, 2023 @04:38PM (#36117837)

I could see an argument that knowing the statistics could help the CPR-giver in the aftermath. After all the patient is very likely to die and if the CPR-giver was under the impression that it is likely to work, then they may feel a lot of unwarranted guilt.

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Re:A 'natural death' may be preferable for many than endurin... by dragonwriter on Monday May 29, 2023 @07:18PM (#36119269)

> What use is this information though to someone performing CPR?

Possibly quite important to their psychological condition afterwards, given what the very low effectiveness means.

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Re:A 'natural death' may be preferable for many than endurin... by Sohcahtoa82 on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @12:45PM (#36127097)

To absolve themselves of guilt and self-doubt.

Someone who doesn't know that CPR has a very low success rate might perform CPR on someone that ends up not surviving and feeling guilty and full of self-doubt, thinking they performed CPR incorrectly.

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Re:A 'natural death' may be preferable for many than endurin... by lazyasciiart on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @04:24PM (#36130233)

There was a Reddit thread from someone who had spent years feeling that exact guilt for not saving her grandma https://www.reddit.com/r/BestofRedditorUpdates/comments/102k...

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