He's having a heart attack. Does anybody know CPR? I do, but I'm not going to do it.

Hi, I'm Scott Ott with Bill Whittle and Stephen Green. This episode of Right Angles brought to you by the members at bill whittle.com.

And gentlemen, there was a story I read this week that really fascinated me not only because I've been through CPR training at least twice maybe three times in my life and was

getting prepared for the eventuality that I may have to help somebody who was having a heart attack

But because I also ran a children's camp where we trained lifeguards and others in CPR and that was a regular part of the equipping of these people that we did.

On television, when actors in dramas have to perform CPR, somebody did a study and they saw Stephen

Green that the survival rate of people who have CPR administered to them in dramatic fictional TV series

is roughly 70%.

In polling of the American public when they said,

what do you think is the percentage of people who are brought back to life or live because of

CPR when they're having a heart attack?

The American public thinks that it's probably around 75%.

Stephen Green, the actual survival rate is less than 10%.

That's about what I thought.

Depending on how you counted, it's somewhere between 7.5% and 10%.

If you're in the hospital and you code, then it's around 17%.

But that's not the thing that was interesting about this. It is the consideration of the negative consequences of performing CPR.

People who have CPR cardiopulmonary resuscitation performed on them

often wind up with broken ribs, broken sternum, lacerated livers, pulmonary, hemorrhaging,

and other kinds of physical damage. In addition, there is this weird phenomenon called CPR-induced

consciousness. In other words, somebody who's dying and then has somebody performed CPR on them,

the blood flow that generates kind of puts the body in this in-between state where the person

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