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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction
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To: DavesM who wrote (31614)4/3/2005 4:08:38 PM
From: Lady Lurksalot  Read Replies (2) of 90947
 
DavesM, I believe Terri Schiavo was clinically dead when Michael Schiavo found her on the floor and was clinically dead at the time the paramedics arrived. As Laz pointed out, CPR would not have raised her serum potassium or sodium levels or otherwise put her serum electrolytes back into balance. I am not even sure that immediate electrolyte infusion would have turned things around for her, and that diagnosis was yet to be made.

If one does not perform CPR on a regular basis, it is easy to screw it up and do no good and lots of harm. I do not fault Michael Schiavo's waiting for the paramedics.

Be that as it may, there is still that blurb from my critical-care listserv: "CPR is pretty worthless and yields a very high probability of PVS rather than resuscitation." These guys know what they are talking about. - Holly
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