Gasping for Life!

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Uploaded by on Mar 26, 2010

If an unconscious person is gasping but not breathing normally should you call 911 and leave them alone, or should you begin aggressive CPR? In this Video Blog, Roy Shaw, EMT-P tells a true story about how a child may have died due to not having life saving CPR because she was showing signs of agonal breathing. This caused the rescuer to stop the life saving CPR and ended tragically.
Watch this Video Blog to learn what agonal breathing is and how to respond to it.

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  • Great video. Answered all my questions!

  • So true that agonal breathing can be interpreted as simply "breathing" yet, this form of breathing is not able to sustain life. I can see how a layperson would stop CPR.

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