How Does Cpr Work If You Breathe In Air And Breathe Out Carbon Dioxide?
how does CPR work if you breathe in air and breathe out carbon dioxide? Wont you be filling their lungs with carbon dioxide? If so wont that be killing them!?… How does CPR work?
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November 3rd, 2009 at 8:50 pm
The air we breathe is mostly nitrogen with oxygen, carbon dioxide and other trace gases mixed in. We use the oxygen out of the air, but we don’t use all of it, we actually breathe out quite a bit of oxygen.
When doing CPR, the rescue breathing part is helping to get that oxygen that we exhale into the person who can’t breathe on their own, plus trying to stimulate their own breathing mechanisms. The chest compressions part helps to pump the heart to circulate that oxygen that we just put in, particularly to the brain, and hoping that the heart starts back up.
November 3rd, 2009 at 11:59 pm
Ok heres the deal. When you breathe in, you breathe in Oxygen Carbon Dioxide, and all that other stuff. But then when you breathe out. Yes you do breath out 4.50% Carbon Dioxide, But you also breathe out 16.3% Oxygen. So your giving them Oxygen, but not enough Carbon Dioxide to kill them.
November 4th, 2009 at 3:12 am
when you breathe out, you don’t just breathe out carbon dioxide. there is some amount of oxygen that also exits your system, which is why cpr works. obviously, the process wouldn’t be practical if you only expelled carbon dioxide.
November 4th, 2009 at 3:30 am
when you breathe in you don’t use all of your oxygen so when you give cpr your filling there lungs with some oxygen