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New CPR Guidelines issued by Heart Association

The American Heart Association announced it has revised its ..guidelines for cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the treatment of ..cardiovascular emergencies... ..Untrained bystanders and CPR-certified lay people will no longer have to check an unconscious person's pulse before administering chest compressions. Instead the person can "check for ..lifelessness" using breath, movement and response t...

Father of CPR dies at 79

Dr. Peter Safar, a pioneer in emergency medicine who also was regarded as the father of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, died Sunday evening of cancer. He was 79. ..Dr. Peter Safar, who died at his home in suburban Pittsburgh, was credited with establishing the country's first physician-staffed, multidisciplinary intensive care unit. He also developed the "ABCs of CPR," a lifesaving technique taugh...

CPR! How Effectively is it being done ?

Researchers who observed rescue crews performing CPR on heart attack victims found they regularly gave people significantly // more breaths than called for by American Heart Association CPR standards.While the standards call for 12 to 15 breaths per minute, the EMS personnel were delivering on average 37 -- essentially causing their victims to hyperventilate. Even after personnel were retrained t...

ResQ-Valve With CPR In Cardiac Arrest Patients To Be Assessed By National Study

It has been proposed by researchers at Medical College of Wisconsin to conduct a large-scale clinical trial to assess the improvement in survival rate in cardiac arrest patients, given CPR and ResQ-Valve//. ....The study would be funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of the National Institutes of Health. The ResQ-Valve Study offers a promise in the emergency manag...

Heart Has Enough Oxygen to Survive Hypothermia; CPR Crucial

Researchers from Norway may have ruled out insufficient oxygen supply to the heart as the critical variable in whether a mammal’s heart survives while in a hypothermic state.// ....Writing in the July issue of the American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology, researchers found no significant difference in the amount of oxygen available to the heart between rats exposed to one...

Teens can Perform CPR as Well as Adults and Should Be Taught from an Early Age

Thirteen year olds can perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) as well as adults, finds a study published on// bmj.com today. The authors suggest that children as young as nine years old should be taught CPR skills including chest compressions. ....Bystander CPR more than doubles the chance of survival for victims of sudden cardiac arrest. Chest compressions are thought to be the most import...