If it took less than 10 minutes to learn a scientifically proven way to
save someone’s life in the event of a heart attack — and that
lesson was free — would you take the time? Would you be
willing to teach others the same technique?
Individuals experiencing a heart attack had a much higher survival rate
if bystanders administered continuous chest compressions (CCC) rather
than the traditional CPR of alternating compressions with mouth-to-mouth
breaths until emergency medical service arrives or an automatic external
defibrillator, according to research conducted by Gordon A. Ewy, MD,
director of the University of Arizona’s Sarver Heart Center. Only 5%
of cardiac-arrest victims survive if nobody performed CPR. For those
receiving standard CPR (alternating between 30 compressions and two
breaths), survival was marginally higher at 6%. In contrast, 11%
survived if bystanders kept pumping on their chest and did not stop for
mouth-to-mouth breaths until emergency medical services arrived.
I first heard about cardiocerebral resuscitation in 2007, when Bentley
J. Bobrow, MD, medical director of the Bureau of Emergency Medical
Services & Trauma System at the Arizona Department of Health Services,
presented the statistics on CCC versus CPR administered by bystanders at
a meeting of the Arizona Fire Chiefs Association. A year later,
http://firechief.com/ems/heartpounding_evidence_0301/index.html FIRE
CHIEF published an article and a poster to introduce the method —
then referred to as cardiocerebral resuscitation (CCR) — to a
wider audience. Click
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