Just Chest Compressions Enough To Save Lives
CPR…very pertinent, important information for each and every person out there! Have you ever actually witnessed someone out and about fall into cardiac arrest? The majority of you are shaking your heads no, but for all that have been a part of this… it is plain out scary.
I live, I mean live for a good code, cardiac arrest or respiratory distress call. I am after all a cardiac critical nurse through and through, but not outside of those hospital walls. It is just as scary for me as anyone else… CPR-especially on a stranger.
Another study has concluded that chest compressions alone are more beneficial in this situation then mouth to mouth combined with compressions. That is great info. How many of you would want to put your lips around a strangers lips and start blowing away? Uh huh, me neither!!
This is exactly one of the speculations that researchers supposed when examining the results. There is an increased time delay when thinking about whether or not to carry out CPR when the mouth was involved versus just chest compressions. It makes perfect sense to me. I hope that you share this info with everyone you know, it could save someones life!!
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1 opinion for Just Chest Compressions Enough To Save Lives
Marijke
Jan 7, 2008 at 8:13 pm
Although as a nurse, particularly when I worked in ICU, I did CPR more times than I can recall, but I did have to do it on the street once and I can tell you that it’s a totally different experience. I’m an experienced first aid instructor, and yet I still wasn’t entirely sure what to do given the situation. It was very disorienting not to have all the equipment available
That being said, I recertified my CPR just a few months ago and was so relieved that it has changed. It’s so much easier to explain and show others now. That, and I got to learn how to use one of the public defibrillators. Cool too, that. :-)
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