How CPR saved Sailfin tang

[saltyhog]

https://www.cprconsultants.com/rescue-breathing-vs-chest-compressions/

There are certain situations where professionals should include rescue breathing. Lay people should never attempt to do rescue breathing.

As I understood the study, it included only cardiac arrest and many of the first responders were not medical professionals. Drowning, infants and prolonged cardiac arrest are a different matter.

 

[ZoWhat]

My juvenile yellow tang has braces on his teeth.

He wanted invisalign but my wife said they were too much $ ....so we went with standard braces.

My wife also won't let him play football.... so there went me reliving-my-youth thru my tang



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[Sal Amadeo]

whatever you did and whatever the reason, all but one lived. Good Job!!

 

[Stigigemla]

I have saved a few fishes blowing water though the gills. I can recommend everyone that gets a carpet surfer to take 2 feet of airline tubing suck up water a bit in it and blow the water in the mouth of the fish. And doing that several times. I hold the fish in one hand in the water using a finger nail to open the mouth and having the air line tubing in the other hand.
I have saved a Pseudochromis fridmanni and a few wrasses that way. One wrasse and the fridmanni was pretty stiff and dry. A few fishes seemed OK but they died the next day probably because the slime coating was to damaged. But I think it is always worth a try. If You save a fish You will always have a special bind to it and all Your friends will be astonished to hear the story and see the fish.

 

[OrionN]

This thread is sad in a sense that the OP put all those fish in a little bucket, close the lid, and expect them to live for a "...few hours". It is so funny that the same when the OP do CPR on the fishes and think that the CPR actually help keep all except one of them alive.
Common sense sometime is not so common.

 

[2boys1room4tanks]

Not sure if youre serious or not, but I really hope no one ever does CPR on a fish. As so someone who's done CPR on full grown adults I've easily cracked their ribs. If you or I were to do CPR on a fish every bone in its body would be broken.

Let's mine is alive and doing fine .

 

[2boys1room4tanks]

Hello everyone,

Let's please remember to be kind to one another. Our community is about treating others respectfully even if we disagree.

Thank you.

PS. Welcome to R2R and I am glad the fish made a recovery!

Thank you))

 

[2boys1room4tanks]

Compression only CPR is taught to the general population. The idea is to get people to just do something. If nothing is done, the chance of survival is zero.

So I guess we should stop ventilating patients

In regards to fish, it sounds like you were able to pass water over the gills. If the fish had actually stopped "breathing" and you were able to get him back, thats awesome!

Thank you .

 

[2boys1room4tanks]

This has to be a trolling story. There's no way you gave a fish cpr and chest compressions...

But I did . ) and hes alive sorry you weren't able to attend lool

 

[fishstick]

But I did . ) and hes alive sorry you weren't able to attend lool

I have had a perusal of the comments here with retrospect to this thread & if anyone would want to perform any action on a perceived dead fish! I would not conclude that they were trying to harm said aquatic lifeform. I would take the position that whom ever would attempt any maneuver to rescue a small fish! to be a person who cares deeply and is empathic.I wish more people had this kind of soul. God bless my friends and remember that it is only impossible until it is not. [emoji1365]

 

[RtomKinMad]

I have had a perusal of the comments here with retrospect to this thread & if anyone would want to perform any action on a perceived dead fish! I would not conclude that they were trying to harm said aquatic lifeform. I would take the position that whom ever would attempt any maneuver to rescue a small fish! to be a person who cares deeply and is empathic.I wish more people had this kind of soul. God bless my friends and remember that it is only impossible until it is not.

I agree! My mapa puffer swallowed a whole clam on the half shell and the shell got stuck in his mouth. My husband was watching and saw the fish struggling to try and get it out. It started to have difficulty breathing so my husband picked up the puffy about 5” (whole handful) and tried to pull the shell out with tongs but it was really stuck. So he pushed on the little belly/throat with one finger (gently of course) and the shell came out! I guess that would be considered the himlick maneuver! And ever since that fish was his buddy. The fish would take good from his hand and fish up to his hand and rub him like a dog does when he put his hands in the tank for any reason. Coolest fish ever! We don’t feed clams in the shell anymore, remove the clam first now. I’m an ICU RN and I wouldn’t have tried that. So maybe knowing too much technical stuff isn’t always right either and dissuades is from intervening when maybe there could be hope for the fish. I’m not talking about humans but fish. Might as well try something if it can save a life, isn’t this how the medical community got started to begin with, “maybe we could just push on the chest and he’ll breath again” someone had to be the first to try on people too!!!!! I think this is a good learning experience for the new fish keeps about oxygen and how to transport fish even if just moving from one tank to another. I don’t think they meant to take a long time or “horse around” getting the fish home as someone suggested. I’m just glad the rest of the fish have survived and I like the story whether it’s silly or not!