I could understand it...

[ffutures]

...when Angel thought he couldn't give Buffy artificial respiration because he was dead, despite the fact that he could talk and obviously inhaled to do so, because he was essentially an ignorant 18th century idiot.

Owen Harper is a 21st century doctor...

Words fail me.

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The CO2 being required for artificial resperiation is a myth. Generally in a hospital, or a properly equipped medic, they use a mechanical respirator, with pure oxygen.

Some current thinking on CPR is that the breathing part isn't even necessary, and may actually be counterproductive. Just pressing on the victim's chest moves enough air in and out of the lungs to oxygenate the blood.