HARD cpr

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So they don't advise giving any air in the British system? Interesting.

Tho AMA changes CPR pretty often.
 
puncho said:
So they don't advise giving any air in the British system? Interesting.

Tho AMA changes CPR pretty often.
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the idea behind that is that a lot of people are leery at the thought of mouth-to-mouth contact with someone for various reasons (disease, cultural mores, the fact that they vomit most of the time when they wake up etc), and that doing something is better than doing nothing
 
well i can see that if you press hard, you're going to compress their lungs and air will naturally be drawn in by displacement when you release pressure.

but if someone is going to die, just go m2m
 
Well they changed it to more compressions than breaths and the reasoning I think is that circulation of blood/oxygen to the brain was most important (basically manual heart pumping).
 
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