Attn Nurses... calories burned for CPR

Even practicing CPR to recertify is exhausting, but I wouldn't take 15 minutes time for it. That's just me though. :happy:

Personally, anything I do at work is counted under my basic activity level.

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i would just include it under your basic calorie level. i'm sure you burned some extra, but it's not really worth logging since you don't really know what you burned.

I would just make sure your activity level is set appropriately.
Congrats on being able to do cpr all those times, I'm sure its appreciated by whoever you saved.

This. If your activity level is set to anything but sedentary (and it should be if you're a nurse), I wouldn't count it.

I would not log it...it will just be bonus cals burned : )

I wish there were a device that could measure the actual calories burned just by my brain trying to keep up and respond to everything going on!! Sometimes I come home feeling like I should've burned at least 1000 cals!!!

I don't know that cpr is comparable to pishups. As a paramedics and ER tech, I do about equal amounts of cpr on floors and elevated on stretchers, and in both positions I tend to use the larger muscle groups of my hips and back to lift my weight off of the patients chest and let it fall again, using my weight to do the compressions. My arms stay locked for the most part. Whereas pushups tend to use the arms and chest more. I'd compare cpr muscle group usage to a dead lift with a 2 inch range of motion.

I set my fitness profile to active since I work a minimum of 60 hours a week split between EMS, the ER, and bartending. And I don't bother logging any additional exercise.

Active CPR is 242 calories per 15 minutes. In a class is about 164. I am a 185 lb person. I just thought it should be answered for us healthcare professional.

I'm a paramedic, and while I too have my activity let higher like a (cough cough) nurse, if I habe an extremelu busy day with lot's pf extra activity, i.e. several interfacility transfers where we're huffing it across the buildings, or just an extra busy day, I count those mibutes or a portion of them as extra. As far as the original question I personnally have wonderd that myself, but since I don't have to do compreasions that odten personally because I have to run the code, push the drugs, intubate, etc. but that is neither here nor there. Long story short like someone else said count it as like light aerobics or aomething like that. I handle supplies at my.service and when I am restocking the supply cabinet from my storage area or putting new supplies, to checking experation dates throught my storage areas, a I count part of that time as "cleaning- light to moderate effort." I'm at 70 lbs lost. p.s. Sorry for jacking your topic! :happy:

Well now as another ED nurse, I would say it depends on the size of the person you're doing CPR on - you KNOW the bigger the patient the harder the CPR. However, I'd still say it counts under your normal work. Just make sure your activity level is set appropriately.

Wow, thank you guys for all your work saving other people's lives on a daily basis. My first thought when I read the OP was "who cares what it burns, it's CPR!!!" But I guess if you do it often enough you need to account for it.

I wonder if superheroes sit around on their forum and ask "how many calories did I burn by redirecting that missile today?" :laugh:

Tmarty1424 wrote: »

15 minutes of CPR will burn 165 calories.

This thread is from 2011.

The thing is... too few calories are also bad. I wouldn't think it's a bad thing to give yourself a little extra, but mostly I would watch your weight trends. Are you losing weight at the rate you would expect for your calorie level? Does the activity level you do approximately even out week to week or is it vastly different?

If it more or less evens out then I would just keep playing with your calorie goals, every couple of weeks, until your loss is about right. Then look at trying to hit your weekly average rather than daily. If you have a busy day and you're starving eat more, and then less on a more sedentary day.

If things vary a lot more wildly, or if you just really like logging, set your activity level to a lower activity level and then give yourself calories for more activity. This is more fun IMO, but also much harder to dial in.

I sorta do a blend of these and I'm usually very consistent.