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@GCElLLC @notherviewpoint @PronouncedHare The fuck, no one gets declared ineligible for resuscitation here, who told you that?

@notherviewpoint @Edwenden @PronouncedHare I don’t agree with the UK model where they seem to declare you ineligible for resuscitation, but I will adamantly fight for the person and family to fully comprehend what they are signing on to by being a full code. That’s worth more than one sentence.

When my grandmother was 99 she had a pacemaker fitted. They flew her to Wellington for the operation. Before they went the guy asked her if she wanted to be resuscitated. She said yes. The guy then asked her again, explaining that it can cause quite painful injuries. She was a completely capable woman of full mental capacity and said yes she understood and please resuscitate her if she needed it. He then asked her a third time, telling her that her quality of life might be different. At that point, my grandmother turned to my father and asked “What does he want me to say?” and Dad then intervened telling the now very defensive guy to knock it off. That kind of low level pressure happens in the health system every day.

@Heather72727791 @RdLessTrvled @PronouncedHare Bad faith argument - not being for CPR ≠ Not being for treatment

@RdLessTrvled @Edwenden @PronouncedHare I’m not elderly. there’s a good possibility I am in heart failure for the second time . I was born with my heart issue .Should I cancel my appointment with the cardiologist? is my life worth anything?

@Heather72727791 @PronouncedHare The only thing that comes close is an implanted defib (ICD) - However if that shock to convert the rythm into a life-sustaining one, your ribs are getting broken.

@Edwenden @PronouncedHare With all the technology. There isn’t a better way to resuscitate the elderly. What about an infant? I’m sure extra care is given in that instance?

@notherviewpoint @PronouncedHare How many people over 80 have fulfilling lives after cardiopulmonary resuscitation? Sure, there'll be edge cases, but the, majority just die despite resus, and 90% of people who live die less than 30 days later, off their heads on pain meds because they'd be in agony otherwise.

@Edwenden @PronouncedHare So due to your experience you think you have some right to decide for them or persuade them to just… die? Many people over 80 have very full lives worth enduring pain for to keep on living even if it’s just a little longer.

@TheMoonIsInMeee @PronouncedHare Fair enough, it's on an American .gov website so I assumed. But none of the content in that article goes against what I've said? One of the principles of the MCA is that we must maximise the capacity of someone to make an informed decision, such as giving them info on CPR.

@Edwenden @PronouncedHare This is about the UK. You should read it. It is about the mental capacity act of 2005 and a landmark decision of your own supreme court

@TheMoonIsInMeee @PronouncedHare I couldn't give less of a fuck as to what is legal or illegal in America.

@Edwenden @PronouncedHare pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC89… It is illegal. Pressure and coercion are illegal.

@TheMoonIsInMeee @PronouncedHare No, it's making sure a patient is well informed before making a decision. People who have not seen it don't know how fucking brutal CPR is.

@Edwenden @PronouncedHare You know it is illegal to try to pressure people into this? The doctor should be reported. And fired.

@oshus1 @PronouncedHare Doesn't matter how strong your bones are, CPR compresses the heart to circulate blood to your brain - to compress your heart we have to break your ribs. Your throat is probably also going to be fucked up because your stomach also gets compressed making you vomit stomach acid.

@Edwenden @PronouncedHare Are bones really that brittel at that age? What can we do to keep them strong?

@RandomNumber758 @PronouncedHare Good luck killing yourself as a very frail 90 year old who cannot take more than a shallow breath from broken ribs, while living with the delirium caused by hypoxic brain injury from the cardiac arrest. Sure it's your decision to make but it's a retarded one.

@Edwenden @PronouncedHare okay I can always kill myself later if I don't find the life to my liking no need to give up preemptively

@didoreth @rcresarf @PronouncedHare Maybe he's on about the induction agent used on rosc?

@rcresarf @PronouncedHare You don’t need anaesthetic while being resuscitated. Because you are dead.

@SamuelJJack2 @Dballesteros79 Shouldn't have posted that reference number.

@Dballesteros79 Sure. I’ll keep you updated.

I just caught one of these fake coppers who arrested me at a COVID protest on his phone whilst driving. I’m not a snitch but I spent a night in a cell, received a £120 fine and got a 12 month suspended sentence. Reported. Poetic. Fucking. Justice.

@dennan_kelvin @ottawascot @DavidDavyvance @fasc1nate Nobody alive remembers the famine. Anybody over the age of 30 remembers paramilitaries murdering civvies.

@ottawascot @DavidDavyvance @fasc1nate Heard of the famine pal , read up about that your government had been murdering Irish children for hundreds of years.

In 1991, the IRA launched a mortar bomb attack in Downing Street, London, with the aim of killing the Prime Minister and his Cabinet. Peter Gurney, head of the Explosives Section who defused one of the unexploded mortars, offered his professional assessment: “It was a remarkably good aim if you consider that the bomb was fired 250 yards with no direct line of sight. Technically, it was quite brilliant. If the angle of fire had been moved five or ten degrees, those bombs would actually have impacted on Number Ten.” Along with the Brighton bombing, this is the closest the IRA ever got to wiping out a PM. But as the IRA said at the time to their intended target, Margaret Thatcher, "Today we were unlucky, but remember we only have to be lucky once. You will have to be lucky always." The most haunting photos ever taken: bit.ly/46yA996

@KJ_1310 @ZakLFC7 No such thing as free healthcare, it's taxpayer funded.

@ZakLFC7 absolutely scandalous that we have to pay for dentists and opticians, include it all in free healthcare or don’t bother imo

we all need to have a serious conversation about dentists and opticians

@ABFXKILLER @toomuchistrue ChatGPT went hard with this one.

@toomuchistrue “This is huge. If key evidence is getting tossed on procedural grounds, it shows how fragile the case really was from the start. Pennsylvania’s two-party consent law isn't a loophole—it's a protection. The prosecution should have known better.”

they 100% thought this wasn't actually going to go to trial lol

@UBERSOY1 Reminds me of the videos taken of POWs in Ukraine, the feeling of powerlessness.

The raped

@RoyalSC351 @AlexanderCleak I mean it's still ridiculous that they're paid the same, but oh well.

@Edwenden @AlexanderCleak Ahh I had it that they were band 2!

@RoyalSC351 @AlexanderCleak This is the same band as 999 call handlers, just paid more because of London salary uplift.

@AlexanderCleak Actually in a higher NHS band than 999 call handlers. What a life

@ItsChillyUpHere @AlexanderCleak Whittington, not Whittingham.

@AlexanderCleak That's in Whittingham! Like north of Newcastle. I've friends who would kill for that wage south of the Watford Gap.

the biggest priority for the government right lol