Will 🇯🇵

Could you save a life?

I’m in the park and earlier I passed four police officers gathered round someone who had collapsed. One of them was giving CPR. If I’d been five minutes earlier and on the other bank of the river it might have been me calling the police. I thought later I should read this.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/may/07/how-to-save-a-life-paramedics-on-emergency-first-aid-from-cardiac-arrest-to-burns-to-seizures?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Strange that just this morning I finally finished Rachel Clarke’s tremendously moving account of her work as a palliative care doctor, Dear Life.

#CPR #FirstAid #Japan

May 17 at 10:09amWeb
Show threadBa_Dang1d ago

@wilpercy

It's a though one. I'd try at least.
Long ago I took my cpr course but I'm not sure I'd be able to save a life...

Show threadWill 🇯🇵1d ago
@Ba_Dang I wouldn’t be confident either but the article is a good overview.
Show thread@stevewfolds1d ago
@wilpercy @Ba_Dang
Timing is everything as the article mentions, age matters too. I’ve done mouth-to-mouth resuscitation 3x in hospice care and would not have done CPR on a 90 year old. I have a DNR for myself signed by my GP as I would not wish to be a vegetable. The same was taught in surf live saving in ‘60s. If you don’t find the victim in 10 minutes, don’t try to revive them.
Show threadWill 🇯🇵1d ago
@stevewfolds @Ba_Dang do you carry your DNR everywhere with you? My brother in law's father had one but the paramedics still tried to revive him when he lost consciousness at home.
Show thread@stevewfolds1d ago

@wilpercy @Ba_Dang
No. Seen people wear bracelets. I have a POLST* posted on refrigerator door. Paramedic are supposed to look. I live alone and no one would find me for weeks. Out in a bag to be cremated as my partner was.

* Physicians Order for Life Preserving Treatment

Show threadWill 🇯🇵1d ago
@stevewfolds @Ba_Dang I hope your wishes are respected.
Show thread@stevewfolds22h ago
@wilpercy @Ba_Dang
I’ll be dead and it won’t matter. Perhaps someone will scatter my ashes where we scattered my partners.
Show threadWill 🇯🇵18h ago
@stevewfolds @Ba_Dang Wow! What a resting place.
Show thread@stevewfolds16h ago
@wilpercy @Ba_Dang
She skied there in winters and hiked in the summers.
Show threadBa_Dang16h ago

@stevewfolds @wilpercy

Splendid👌

Show threadWill 🇯🇵13h ago
@stevewfolds @Ba_Dang very cool indeed.