GP treatment of seated man ‘futile’, hearing told

THE ACTIONS of a general practitioner who attempted cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on a man who was sitting upright in a chair were “futile”, an expert witness told a fitness-to-practise committee yesterday.

Colin Bradley, general practice professor at University College Cork, said if chest compressions to restart a person’s heart are to be effective, the person would have to be lying flat.

Out-of-hours GP Dr George Dimitrov Georgiev (56), from South Africa, was facing six allegations of professional misconduct and or poor professional performance at the Medical Council yesterday following his treatment of John Dunne in 2009. (Times) >