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Something you should know: Continuous chest compression

The new CPR for heart attack patients,

Cardiocerebral resuscitation (CCR) is a new approach to patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest that has been shown to improve rates of neurologically intact survival by 250%–300% over the approach advocated by the 2000 American Heart Association guidelines.

Call 911, and then do 100 compressions per minute until the EMS gets there:

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4 Responses to “Something you should know: Continuous chest compression”

  1. Kathy Says:
    January 29th, 2010 at 11:19 pm

    Good info, thanks for sharing Fausta!

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  3. David Says:
    January 31st, 2010 at 11:40 pm

    Fausta, Nice blog, elegant writing.

    David (the Tango deserter)

  4. Fausta Says:
    February 1st, 2010 at 9:04 am

    Thanks, David. Please visit often!