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The American Heart Association (AHA) has just made new instructions for CPR, also known as cardiopulmonary resuscitation. They have found that mouth-to-mouth resuscitation was not necessary to maintain the basic life support for those whose hearts have stopped. Only making rapid chest compressions was necessary. Rescue breathing is only suggested for children and those whose cardiac arrest was due to oxygen deprivation.
This decision was made based on research showing that witnesses would usually perform compression-only CPR on strangers and skip out on the mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. This would work just as well, if not better than conventional CPR with both parts. Corey Slovis, the chairman of emergency medicine at Vanderbilt Univeristy, advocates this change because bystanders can save victims just by pumping on their chests rather than just standing around while they watch them die.
Around 300,000 people experience cardiac arrests outside the hospital each year. Statistics say that less than 8% usually survive their heart attack or rhythm disturbance. After studying 3,700 of these cases, researchers found the pumping-only CPR to save 22% more lives than the standard CPR. They believe that the switch to the hands-only CPR could save up to 3,000 extra lives annually in USA and 5,000-10,000 in North America and Europe.
In order for someone to correctly apply CPR, he has to compress the victim's chest a hundred times a minute to a depth of about 2 inches. This allows blood and oxygen to flow to the brain until emergency help arrives. Stopping the pumping to give rescue breaths can interrupt this blood flow. In addition, many bystanders would not want to give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation because of the fear of getting infectious diseases and other phobias.
Source:American Heart Association
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