Updated CPR "C-A-B" Guidelines Released
Compressions, Airway and Breathing With or Without a CPR Mask
The American Heart Association has released its 2010 guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and published these changes in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. Chest compressions are now the recommended first step for lay and professional responders assisting individuals in cardiac arrest. The A-B-Cs (Airway - Breathing - Compressions) of CPR should now be C - A - B (Compressions - Airway - Breathing).
No longer is the recommendation to look, listen and feel for normal breathing before beginning CPR. Now, compressions should be started immediately on anyone who is unresponsive and not breathing normally. Then the airway should be cleared, and the last step would be B - Breathing, either with or without a CPR mask.
The change in the CPR sequence applies to adults, children and infants, but excludes newborns. Other recommendations, based mainly on research published since the last AHA resuscitation guidelines in 2005 are as follows:
• During CPR, rescuers should give chest compressions a little faster - at a rate of at least 100 times a minute
• Rescuers should push deeper on the chest, compressing at least two inches in adults and children and 1.5 inches in infants
• Between each compression, rescuers should avoid leaning on the chest to allow it to return to its starting Position
• Rescuers should avoid interrupting chest compressions and ventilation to avoid excessive
• All 9-1-1 centers should aggressively to get the instructions on the phone began performing CPR, it is presumed to be cardiac arrest,
Ralph Sacco, MD, president of the American Heart Association said: "Sudden cardiac arrest claims hundreds of thousands of lives each year were used in the United States and the American Heart Association guidelines, for trainingMillions of people in lifesaving techniques. Despite our success is the research behind the guidelines tell us that more people do CPR, treat victims of sudden cardiac arrest need, and that the quality of CPR issues, whether it be a professional and not professional rescuers there. "
There is now a must for every individual to learn the use of emergency medical products.
With the proper training and equipment as a CPR mask CPR, professional services and recoverynon-professional workers, the survival rate for those who are on the rise with the SCA.
No comments:
Post a Comment