Why am I holding their legs in the air?
Well I read it on hacker news once.
Hacker news, oh it collates techy/stem blog posts and articles.
I don't know if the author of this post had any medical credentials.
I can see why it doesn't look like they knew what they were writing about.
"Don't be snarky."
"Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community." (Edit: ok, maybe I was overinterpreting your comment a little bit on this one.)
If instead of posting this you had taken the time to click on https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bookofjoe, you would already know that bookofjoe worked for 38 years as a neurosurgical anesthesiologist.
Doing compressions at 60/minute is not going to resuscitate your patient if they are in cardiac arrest. Ever.
https://cpr.heart.org/en/resuscitation-science/cpr-and-ecc-g...
> 3. For adults in cardiac arrest, it is reasonable for rescuers to perform chest compressions at a rate of 100 to 120/min.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8152146/ "Clinical outcomes and safety of passive leg raising in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a randomized controlled trial":
> In this trial, PLR during CPR did not improve survival to hospital discharge
Sorry, dang, but while not litigating this - the advice in this post is outdated, and factually inaccurate, and entirely likely to cause actual harm when performed by a layperson.
What I do know is how HN is supposed to work in cases like this: respond to incorrect information with correct information. Do not respond with snark, shallow dismissals, or internet tropes. If people respond by arguing back (though I don't think I saw that in the current thread), either continue to do those things while remaining respectful, or simply don't continue the discussion.
It's that simple! At least conceptually. It can be hard in practice, of course, because other people being wrong on the internet is so provocative.
There's a few people in this thread shouting loudly about it because, in contrast to many things here, this is something that if you do, in contrary to the content in the linked blog post, you absolutely could actively kill someone.
Which isn't to say everything you've said isn't valid either: look like the calm reasoned person, not the screaming lunatic. But I can also see why some people are "for the love of anything, please please please don't do this".
In his defense, this is written on his personal blog where (quite possibly) many readers already have some reason to trust his advice. And while I'm not sure what counts as appropriate credentials, on his linked HN bio (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bookofjoe) he claims to be a "Retired (38 years in practice) neurosurgical anesthesiologist". He also links to a lot of Google Scholar papers on medical topics for which he is a co-author.
(Oops, beaten by Dan, but I'll leave it up anyway. While I agree with Dan that you might have phrased it a bit better, I did think it was a fair question.)