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By Amanda Gardner
HealthDay Reporter
MONDAY, Nov. 28 (HealthDay News) -- New, simplified guidelines for cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) emphasize pushing on the chest over breathing into a person's mouth.
The revised guidelines are aimed at everyone -- from bystanders to police rescuers as well as doctors and nurses.
'We're starting to get more scientific evidence and this year we reached the tipping point to make changes,' said Mary Fran Hazinski, senior science editor for the American Heart Association, and a clinical nurse specialist in pediatric emergency and critical care at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn. 'This year's guidelines emphasize the importance of CRP and especially high-quality CPR.'
Dr. Robert O'Connor, vice chairman of the American Heart Association's emergency cardiac care committee, and director of education and research at Christiana Care Health System in Newark, Del., added, 'We have tried to tighten the chain of survival.'
The guidelines were released Monday by the American Heart Association and are published online in the new issue of the journal Circulation.
Both Hazinski and O'Connor spoke at a news conference Monday.
At the heart of the new effort is a desire to increase survival rates for cardiac arrest -- when the heart suddenly stops beating. 'We have been concerned that the overall survival rates from cardiac arrest in the U.S. have not budged in the last several years,' Hazinski said.
The chances that a victim of cardiac arrest will be successfully resuscitated and go on to live a normal life range from two percent to 70 percent in the United States and Canada, depending on location.
O'Hare and Midway airports in Chicago, however, have reported extraordinarily high rates (74 percent survival to hospital discharge), as have some casinos and some police programs, including the one in Rochester, N.Y., the "
By Amanda Gardner
HealthDay Reporter
MONDAY, Nov. 28 (HealthDay News) -- New, simplified guidelines for cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) emphasize pushing on the chest over breathing into a person's mouth.
The revised guidelines are aimed at everyone -- from bystanders to police rescuers as well as doctors and nurses.
'We're starting to get more scientific evidence and this year we reached the tipping point to make changes,' said Mary Fran Hazinski, senior science editor for the American Heart Association, and a clinical nurse specialist in pediatric emergency and critical care at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn. 'This year's guidelines emphasize the importance of CRP and especially high-quality CPR.'
Dr. Robert O'Connor, vice chairman of the American Heart Association's emergency cardiac care committee, and director of education and research at Christiana Care Health System in Newark, Del., added, 'We have tried to tighten the chain of survival.'
The guidelines were released Monday by the American Heart Association and are published online in the new issue of the journal Circulation.
Both Hazinski and O'Connor spoke at a news conference Monday.
At the heart of the new effort is a desire to increase survival rates for cardiac arrest -- when the heart suddenly stops beating. 'We have been concerned that the overall survival rates from cardiac arrest in the U.S. have not budged in the last several years,' Hazinski said.
The chances that a victim of cardiac arrest will be successfully resuscitated and go on to live a normal life range from two percent to 70 percent in the United States and Canada, depending on location.
O'Hare and Midway airports in Chicago, however, have reported extraordinarily high rates (74 percent survival to hospital discharge), as have some casinos and some police programs, including the one in Rochester, N.Y., the "
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