In this file photo from Jan. 19, 2016, then Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum meets with voters in Greenfield, Iowa. (Evan Vucci/AP)Doctors and surgeons had an important message for former Republican senator Rick Santorum on Sunday: CPR does not save people who are bleeding to death from AR-15 wounds. Santorum, CPR doesn’t work if all the blood is on the ground.”And Rebecca Bell, a pediatric critical care doctor at the University of Vermont Medical Center, broke it down in layman’s terms:“Here are some stats made simple for Rick Santorum,” she said on Twitter. “Survival rate of pulseless trauma victims who get CPR at the scene: VERY, VERY LOW. Rick Santorum telling kids to shut up and take CPR classes is simply unconscionable.

Source: Washington Post March 26, 2018 09:42 UTC