subject: CPR Certification - Mouth To Mouth May Cost Lives Hence Modification In CPR Guidelines [print this page] CPR Certification - Mouth To Mouth May Cost Lives Hence Modification In CPR Guidelines
CPR certification saves peoples lives - all of us know that. If an individual has a cardiac arrest and the onlookers do nothing at all the probabilities are the person will not survive. But if someone performs the kiss of life, they could still pass away!
Recent research released in the Journal of the American Medical Organization suggests that patients that get the kiss of life are usually not more prone to live than if someone performs chest compressions only. The CPR guidelines are being changed in part because of this research.
The study reviewed 4000 victims of cardiac arrest and also checked out whether they had received CPR, what type either from a non medical individual or the EMT, the way they fared and if they survived. The conclusion was that chest compressions helped and were in fact more effective than CPR performed utilizing both mouth to mouth and rescue breaths. Making people perform mouth to mouth is costing lives and not just in the conditions covered in the research. The fact is that individuals don't want to kiss unfamiliar persons and this is putting them off learning important life saving abilities. Also when the public perform the CPR steps, they generally get the rescue breath bit incorrect in any case. So what exactly can be done instead? The simple facts are:
-Way a lot of people die unnecessarily after suffering a cardiac arrest. Statistics show about 300 ,000 individuals die every year in the USA alone- that number is unacceptable.
-The common people are afraid of disease and it also appears that no amount of advertising is going to change their minds.
-Even if disease wasn't a problem individuals are concerned about bad breath and kissing other people. It is actually funny if it wasn't so sad.
-We require more people to know fundamental life saving skills and obtain their CPR certification. So we must reap the benefits of the recent research if it means more individuals not simply gain these life saving skills but will actually use them on the streets of the United States.
So what does this mean? The new research and possibly soon to be guidelines suggest that chest only compressions done correctly saves lives. You still need to know how to do it correctly however in the event of a tragedy taking action is better than nothing. Watch the video mentioned below to determine how simple it is to perform CPR only using chest compressions. This works and it gets rid of all requirement for kissing unfamiliar persons. Now people there are no more excuses why everyone shouldn't become CPR qualified now!
