Push hard and push fast (1 Viewer)

[Dre]

If you are scared of giving mouth to mouth if you see someone collapse (with cardiac arrest) give the chest compressions anyway.

Basic Life Support (BLS) and Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) guidelines call for 2 breaths for every 32 compressions...and you should be giving 100 compressions per minute. If you are certified in either of these protocols, keep going as you are taught (I will).

But for everyone else, and that is most of America, there is A LOT of benefit to compressions only. If you would rather stand by idly (as many would understandably do) when someone has a cardiac arrest rather than give mouth to mouth, at least conisder doing chest compressions.

here is some new cardiology literature...

Survival Is Similar After Standard Treatment and Chest Compression Only in Out-of-Hospital Bystander Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
-Bohm K, Rosenqvist M, Herlitz J, et al. Circulation 2007;116:2908-2912.

Effectiveness of Bystander-Initiated Cardiac-Only Resuscitation for Patients With Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest
-Iwami T, Kawamura T, Hiraide A, et al. Circulation 2007;116:2900-2907.

Continuous-Chest-Compression Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation for Cardiac Arrest
-Ewy GA. Circulation 2007;116:2894-2896.

 

[Leastbay]

are you an instructor, I need a CPR card before the 14th and im having a hard time finding a class to renew it

 

[Dre]

sorry man, I am in Baltimore so cannot help you there...

 

[ra]

It's so much easier just letting them die.

 

[atceagle]

are you an instructor, I need a CPR card before the 14th and im having a hard time finding a class to renew it

I am an instructor on the MS Gulf Coast. I would check with your local hospital.

 

[Saint77]

I understand the gist of the article, but one statement caught my eye. I shall correct.

If you would rather stand by idly (as many would understandably do, since they are complete and utter wussies, who only care about their own skins) when someone has a cardiac arrest rather than give mouth to mouth, at least conisder doing chest compressions.

 

[runDeucerun]

It's so much easier just letting them die.

whenever you have one... i'll be sure not to help you out

 

[Dragon]

It is sad that so many people are afraid to help. We had a man in the town I live in who died in the street because people thought he was drunk. In reality he was a diabetic and was confuse and going into shock. People could see he was in a bad way but just walked over or around him......

If just one person had stopped and seen his bracelet, he would still be alive.....