Experts now recommend hands-only CPR (AP)

March 31st, 2008 admin Posted in Top stories |

In this photo released by Jared Hjelmstad, Hjelmstad, right, of Temecula, Calif., visits with Garth Goodall at Rancho Springs Medical Center in Murrieta, Calif. Wednesday, February 27, 2008, days after Goodall collapsed while working out at a health club. Hjelmstad used hands-only CPR to keep Goodall's blood circulating until paramedics arrived and took over. The American Heart Association on Monday, March 31, 2008, revised its CPR guidelines and said doing hands-only CPR — without mouth-to-mouth breathing — works just as well as standard CPR for sudden cardiac arrest in adults. (AP Photo/ courtesy of Jared Hjelmstad)AP - You can skip the mouth-to-mouth breathing and just press on the chest to save a life. In a major change, the American Heart Association said Monday that hands-only CPR — rapid, deep presses on the victim’s chest until help arrives — works just as well as standard CPR for sudden cardiac arrest in adults.


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