Do you know CPR, have you ever had to perform it?

I have been certified for years but have never thank goodness had to use it!

I have some idea but not perfect enough to really help a dying person. Maybe I should find time to perfect this skill, thank you for giving me an idea. God bless!

We don't have any and I also do not know how to operate it. I wish I will be given a chance!

Yes I know CPR and I have done it several times. I am an RN and use to work in a busy hospital. We had the telemetry and kidney dialysis patients. Telemetry is the cardiac monitoring that is not sick enough to be in intensive care. I started my career in the medical field in 1986 and have been in there ever since. Yes I know CPR and yes I have preformed it on humans. The worst part is when you separate the ribs from the sternum. You meet resistance then then it is like mush. But you continue to do what needs to be done to save the life. I have never worked with the babies, or children so thank God I have never had to do CPR on little ones I do not know if I could handle that emotionally espically if they did not make it.

I have taken the red cross classes and gotten my certification a number of times. Right now it is expired though.I have never had to do CPR, but I have had to help someone who was choking and couldn't breathe.

Yes i know CPR i had to perform it once on my sister. She suffers with asthma. She had a really bad attack one day when we were teenagers. We were home by our selfs, dancing and jumping to music. When she just collapsed! I tried looking for her inhaler but i could not find it. She was gasping for air to no avail. She lost consciousness and then stopped breathing! I was so scared, i started crying and praying. then i remembered what my mother thought me. I started performing CPR on her. She didn't start back to breath at first. I kept trying and she pulled through. Thank God i used my head or she wouldn't have been alive to this day. I really love my sister and I'm glad i was there to save her life.

nope i dont know how to do it..and dreaded the moment that i really have to perform it ...but my husband knows ..he was trained years back by the red cross in our country in connection with Regional disaster coordinating council..which is a group of govt. employees that helps areas that been experiencing calamities of that sort..

I know CPR but the problem is that they've more or less changed the techniques since I've taken the class and learned it. I've never had to use it thankfully. I will try my hardest if I have to but I hope I never do.

Hi gitfiddleplayer. I was trained yearly in CPR when I worked at several health care organizations and agencies (a hospital and 2 child welfare agencies). Plus, I have been a Red Cross volunteer (not active now) in the past, which also required CPR training. However, I've never had to use CPR and I haven't attended the training in 5 years. I guess I am saying I'm not sure I would be "ready" to administer CPR at the current time. I think it is 2 breaths (after clearing airway) to 15 chest compressions for an adult. (For kids, I'm thinking it's one breath and 5 chest compressions.) However, I know there was some recent press that they weren't sure the breaths were necessary and that some people were saved just with chest compressions. So, I don't think I am currently prepared to perform CPR. PearlGrace

I know CPR, First Aid, how to use an AED. When i was in university I took a 6 week course on being a first responder. I was a first responder in my home town for four years but have since not been taking calls as you are supposed to go in pairs here and theres a lack of people with the training. I don't feel comfortable doing the calls alone.

i agree cpr is somehting every one should know, and we should teach it to our youngsters too. i take a refresher course evry two years, but never have had to use i thank god for that, my 14 yr old has taken the cpr class as well and im teaching my 8 yr old daughter and 7 yr old niece to..

I do know it, yes. I learned earlier this year when I took a first aid course. It is a very useful thing to know just in case and it really can save lives. Pity that practise has to be restricted to dummies only so if it gets to a real life situation you just have to hope its similar. Other basic first aid should also be widely known, like what to do if you're bleeding, burnt and how to splint a broken bone.

I have had first aid training but, I would now need refresher training on it as it's been so long! It is a good idea though to have some kind of training like this especially with children around!

Yes and yes. I kept up my certification after I was a lifeguard and I've used it twice since then. Once was on an older man at a show. He just collapsed and stopped breathing, and I got got to play 'hero'. Luckily, the EMTs arrived shortly after he started breathing and I could go hide in a hole and recover from the adrenaline rush! I also had to use it on a small child that stopped breathing on a boat deck. I bruised him to bits and felt absolutely awful because he was wailing in pain, but he was breathing when the EMTs got there. It's valuable to know, but it's pretty tough to do. The technique isn't difficult, but eesh! mentally, it's tortuous.

I learn CPR when im 14 years old and i dont know either i still remember it or not but i hope it will be usefull someday because i do think knowing at least how to do CPR is important =)

I did learn but a long time ago so feel I should get updated on the technique in case I am ever in that kind of situation . then I will know exactley what to do. It would be good to be ready right now.

I took a CPR and First Aid course as a first responder at work. I have not been recertified since they changed the procedure so I need to get that done. I have never had to perform it, thankfully. I hope I never do. I like to be prepared, though, just in case.

A first aid course including CPR is a requirement to get the driver's license in my home country. I was fortunate enough to never encounter a situation where I had to use it (keeping my fingers crossed). Since I learned CPR instructions changed. We didn't do the pressing on the chest thing. Now they are in the process of changing the guidelines for that again. But I would say, if push comes to fall, I could do it;)

I learned it briefly in high school, in phys. ed...but I've never actually been certified and I've long forgotten the proper technique. However, I'm going back to school to be a teacher soon and one of the requirements to get in is that you have to be CPR certified. So...I will be very soon!

I learned how to do cpr when i was in high school and still know how to do it . you just never know when you will need to use it . thankfully , i never have had to .