Key element of CPR missing from guidelines
July 28, 2014
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By Anne Craig, Communications Officer
Removing the head tilt/chin lift component of rescue breaths from the latest cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) guidelines could be a mistake, according to Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s 카지노게임사이트 professor Anthony Ho.
Traditional CPR guidelines for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest by lay bystanders include rescue breaths. These are delivered using a combination of head tilt/chin lift and mouth-to-mouth breathing. Under the new guidelines, these are now omitted.

카지노 게임 컬렉션Wholesale elimination of ventilation from CPR by laypersons for adults with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest may be misguided,카지노 게임 컬렉션 says Dr. Ho (Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine), who is also at Kingston General Hospital.
카지노 게임 컬렉션It is important to remember that rescue breathing is a two-part intervention: head-tilt-chin-lift and delivery of rescue breaths. Head-tilt-chin-lift, the key to overcoming obstruction in the upper airway in unconscious patients, is not the reason for all the undesirable effects of rescue mouth-to-mouth breathing.카지노 게임 컬렉션
The new guidelines, issued by the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation in 2010, recommend CPR using only chest compressions if performed by untrained bystanders. Mouth-to-mouth resuscitation was removed from the guidelines as it can delay or interrupt chest compressions, too much ventilation could be provided, and bystanders may be reluctant to perform it.
With a survival rate of only 14 per cent for compression-only CPR, Dr. Ho says there is a lot of room for improvement. Dr. Ho카지노 게임 컬렉션s commentary was published in the most recent edition of the