CPR is successful without mouth-to-mouth, but not without oxygen

Wednesday, December 2, 2009 - 09:21 in Health & Medicine

People can survive cardiac arrest if they receive only chest compressions during attempts to revive them - as advised by the current American Heart Association guidelines. But they cannot survive without access to oxygen sometime during the resuscitation effort, research suggests...

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