CPR by medics: Keep pumping or stop for rescue breathing?

Monday, November 9, 2015 - 19:43 in Health & Medicine

Continuous chest compressions during out-of-hospital CPR by emergency medical responders did not offer survival advantages, when compared to interrupting manual chest pumping to perform rescue breathing. Nor were continuous chest compressions better in protecting brain function among those who survived the cardiac arrest and were later discharged from a hospital. These unexpected findings come from […]

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