You CAN Do It: Latest & Greatest on How to Perform CPR

When an adult has a sudden cardiac arrest, his or her survival depends greatly on immediately getting CPR from someone nearby. Unfortunately, less than 1/3 of those people who experience a cardiac arrest at home, work or in a public location get that help. Most bystanders are worried that they might do something wrong or make things worse. That’s why the American Heart Association has simplified things.

Please watch this short, informative, and very important video to learn about Continuous Chest Compression CPR (now being called “Hands-Only CPR”).  It’s simple.  There’s no mouth contact.  And, it could save someone’s life.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5huVSebZpM

all my best,

Karen Cameron
www.CheckInCalls.com & www.Memoir-Maker.com

The A-B-Cs of CPR, now “C-A-B”

The American Heart Association is re-arranging the ABCs of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in its 2010 American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care, published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.

Recommending that chest compressions be the first step for lay and professional rescuers to revive victims of sudden cardiac arrest, the association said the A-B-Cs (Airway-Breathing-Compressions) of CPR should now be changed to C-A-B (Compressions-Airway-Breathing).

Source:  The American Hearth Association

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