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Congestive heart failure - stomach bloating my dad died in front of me, my mom and boyfriend nov. 6th, 2011. we lost him of congestive heart failure with no warning. he was coughing, throwing up and then got dizzy and sat down. he fell off of what he was
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During : During CPR you are breathing for the person and the normal mechanism that prevents air from entering your stomach and makes it go down to your lungs is no longer active. Therefore the stomach gets bloated as a result of air that is being forced into his airway -some of that air goes into the lungs but some gets into the stomach. It doesn't take much for the stomach to get bloated during CPR as the activity of the entire gastrointestinal tract (including the stomach) stops, and so things begin to back up fairly quickly. I doubt that it was blood from his airway causing all of this, although it could have contributed a bit.
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