Little late to the gun here, but Hot Air and other blogs have covered this video shown on CNN.

Ed takes it apart pretty, good, but as a certified paramedic with about 12 years experience I didn’t have to watch it that closely to determine that not only is it a fake, but it’s a really bad one. Heck the guy isn’t even performing CPR correctly. The chest compressions are far two “light” and there is no breath/compression. Additionally there appear to be defibrillators near by and the doctor appears too “star struck” to get to them.

Just for kicks and giggles I passed it around some other paramedics, two of which asked me if it were something from “24″.

CNN is acting ridiculous to even try to claim the video is real. I’m on a few news contact lists as a 911 expert for my prior work and speaking, if they would like to contact me, I’m available.

UPDATE: Just for help for the lefties who disagree, here are simple CPR instructions on a child over 12 that clearly show the individuals on the video are not performing it properly.

Put the heal of one of your hands on the child’s breast bone (directly between the child’s nipples). Push straight down about 1.5 inches, then let the chest retract all the way back up. Do that 30 times, about twice per second.

After 30 pushes on the chest, give the child two more rescue breaths. Keep going — 30 chest compressions followed by 2 breaths.

Again, no straight down compression, nor are breaths being applied through an a apparatus as ER procedure calls for.

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