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TMZ: Carrie Fisher suffers cardiac arrest on plane (Up: in ICU, condition unknown)
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Officerrob
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Fuck off 2016, you have taken far too many! Leave the princess alone
CloudyTuba
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Killer Queen
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A movie writer that GAF hates
Escape Goat
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Would it be better if she died in 2017? I don't get you people.
If she went ten minutes without breathing I can't see her living besides being a vegatable unfortunately. That's just too long for the brain to be deprived of oxygen. My dad died earlier this year from this very same thing.
Not to diminish your tragic circumstance at all but, to anyone with medical knowledge here, does CPR provide oxygen to the brain or does it do something else entirely?
deltacanuckian
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A screenwriter, John Landis' son. Apparently a close friend was on the plane next to Carrie when it happened and called him after. She's a family friend of his and Max's friend believed she was dead.
Bluekaveli
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They have no age limit.
Maybe, but I really doubt 2017 will be like this year from my perspective. but this is not the thread to talk about this.
whyamihere
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Unspeakable Evil
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Damn.
Hope she's ok
Hope she's ok
Spartancarver
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That is the only goal of CPR. Pushing on the chest is meant to do the heart's work of pumping blood, which carries oxygen, throughout the body, including to the brain.
Even if she is dead, it's not his place to make that announcement before an official statement from a medical professional, ESPECIALLY if he wasn't even there and is only hearing info secondhand.
Plus the way he did it was shitty too, just posting "RIP" and not something like "My two friends were there, they believe her to have passed, but they aren't doctors so wait on official word", or something like that.
Escape Goat
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Really?
Ninja Scooter
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The reactions to people saying "fuck 2016" are getting as bad as saying "fuck 2016". Do you get this mad at "fuck cancer!" posts?
Emerson
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That is the function of CPR, yes. But ten minutes of complete apnea and arrest prior to CPR is not a good start. CPR in general, despite what the media depicts, has abysmally low survival rates.
Obviously I'm not involved in her care, but from what we've heard so far it sounds like she will probably not make it.
Are there defibrillators on planes? Serious question. If not they had to wait for the plane to land.
Vestal
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How about 2016 has been a maximum crappy year for everyone? Between Childhood memories being washed away, to the Orange Turd becoming President, the tragedies in Aleppo, Germany and the countless losses we have had of people that while we might not have known them personally have been a part of our lives or have inspired a lot of us..
Yeah I gotta agree with the people who say that "Fuck 2016" shit is ridiculous. Might as well say "Fuck all the years" because we know how things will end up being. People will be saying "Fuck (insert whatever year it is)" until they die. Either way that's not the point of the thread.
I hope she pulls through though. She's strong. Let's hope for the best.
I hope she pulls through though. She's strong. Let's hope for the best.
SCULLIBUNDO
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A doctor pronounces her dead. Not Max Landis.
StopMakingSense
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Those don't work the way TV and movies would have you believe.
I dunno if it's because I'm getting old or what but 2016 has had far more celebrity deaths than any year I can remember.
Netherscourge
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This fucking year...
PLEASE PULL THROUGH CARRIE!!!!!!
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PLEASE PULL THROUGH CARRIE!!!!!!
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Spartancarver
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I believe all commercial airlines in the US are required to have AEDs on board. Not sure about internationally
I'd have assumed yes but I think it depends on the airline. If there wasn't then CPR definitely wouldn't have been enough.
It worked for my dad.
styl3s
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Take a step back from your computer and just process all the shit that's been going on in the world this year and tell me you don't want it to fucking end. It's not just about a handful of celebrity deaths.
Fuck 2016, it's been a terrible year and carrie fisher dying (which i hope she doesn't) just adds more icing on the shit filled cake people have been having to eat all fucking year. Maybe you just live in your own bubble where nothing effects you.
As for Carrie i hope she pulls through she seems to of been doing better but i don't know how she was in her personal life but i have met her over a dozen times in my life and she was always a wonderful, lively and cheerful person. She was also incredibly influential on my sisters lives and many others. I pray for her and her family.
Defibrillators don't work on a cardiac arrest. They work on different heart problems (where the heart moves in erratic ways that fail to move blood) and act by causing a cardiac arrest which normally makes the heart restart with a normal rythm (basically a "turn off and on again").
RadioJoNES64
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Yeah, I mean it's a valid point of reference since she's in the movie.
Simon Belmont
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A defibrillator shocks a arhythmic heart into beating properly. It doesn't restart a stopped heart
That only works if there is an irregular heartbeat. If there's no heartbeat it doesn't work
NotTheGuyYouKill
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One last fuck you from 2016
Escape Goat
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Who said I was mad?
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