Posts Tagged ‘continuous chest compression’

During my multiple former lives as a child care director, high school cheerleader coach, and health club owner, I was required to take CPR many times.  The problem was, by the next week I couldn’t remember how many compressions and how many rescue breaths they said to do!

This uncertainty can cause people to hesitate if they find themselves in a situation where they actually need to use their emergency life-saving training.  And every second counts when CPR is needed!

Now the doctors at the Sarver Heart Center at the University of Arizona College of Medicine have developed a new technique called “continuous chest compression CPR.”  This method does not include mouth-to-mouth breathing at all.  Here is a video demonstration.

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