[at-l] CPR Useless?

[rickboudrie at hotmail.com (rick boudrie)]

I'd call your local Red Cross (where is that Bleeder Guy?) and ask for 
updates on CPR (essentially useless in backcountry) and first aid...


Please explain why CPR is essentially useless in the backcountry.  Or did 
you mean that getting an upadate is useless?

While I can understand how CPR might be useless for something like a heart 
attack if you are hours away from a hospital, I would sure want the people 
around me to know CPR if I ever get hit by lightening.  No matter how far up 
or in I was.

I'd also hope that after getting hit by lightening  that the good samaritans 
finding me wouldn't stop until I get pulse, or am dead cold, or they drop 
from exaution.  Whichever comes first.

Not being a physician, and having no up-to- date certification, I may be way 
off, however.  Perhaps it is useless to administer CPR in th backcountry.  I 
be curious if this is the case since it must take an extrodinary emotional  
toll on those who perform it to no avail.  Is it really "essentially 
useless" if you find someonew hit by lightening or floating in a pond,  in 
those situation where a hospital is many hour away?

Rick B

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