@rpluim @regordane @digitalraven Checking for a pulse is surprisingly error-prone, if you ever did it once and that's been years ago, i.e. in you last first aid course.
There is a saying that most people would find a pulse on a table leg in that situation. Their own, adrenaline driven pulse, that is.
This is why nowadays you're trained to check for breathing: That's much easier to do.
If the heart stops, breathing will stop within seconds. And if breathing stops before the heart, the heart will follow within minutes, if nothing is done.
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Your infrequent reminder that I spent twenty minutes dead a few years ago, and without constant CPR and a correctly-used defibrillator when paramedics arrived I would still be dead.