Hollywood-style CPR and its associated procedures.
Every time I see it carried out in films and on merkin TV shows, it seems to drift further and further away from reality, unnecessarily raising people's expectations of what it can achieve should it be carried out in real life. My irritation has become such that I've started hating what are otherwise perfectly good films because of it (for example, The Abyss) :(
( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 21:35, 5 replies)

that was the best example of revival via a good shouting at in filum history

( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Mon 4 Apr 2011, 21:43, closed)

Also, case in point:
www.gearfuse.com/how-to-administer-cpr-according-to-hollywood/
( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 21:56, closed)

Because...
... they go poke poke poke at the patient's chest, barely pushing hard enough to squash the skin over the breastbone. When, as we all know, if you're not hoofing someone in the chest hard enough to break ribs, you're going to do fuck all to their heart.

But no, "pat pat pat pat pat pat " is what we get. I'd be surprised if people haven't died because of ineffective CPR because of this shit.

As the first-aid instructor on my offshore course said, if it doesn't feel like you're punching a bag of Ryvita, you're not doing it right.
(gordonjcp, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 23:56, closed)

Nelly the Elephant packed her trunk
was the rhythm I was taught by the army when administering chest compressions.

Amazing how it all comes back to you and you can remember that while being shot at.
(square go, Tue 5 Apr 2011, 0:17, closed)

And the success rate is...
absolutely shit. Unless your heart was healthy to begin with, uninjured and you've been asystolic or in VF for less than 60 seconds, you ain't coming back.

MrsJack once counted the successful CPRs/defribrillations in a series of Casualty, she being a nurse: around 10 times higher than real life.
(all my scars face forward possesses 2.5% of a hyperalloy combat chassis, Tue 5 Apr 2011, 0:29, closed)