Dispatcher-assisted bystander CPR best choice for possible cardiac arrest signs

Wednesday, December 23, 2009 - 06:49 in Health & Medicine

Dispatchers should assertively give cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) instructions to bystanders who suspect someone is in cardiac arrest because the benefits from correctly recommending CPR for someone who needs it greatly outweigh the risks from recommending CPR for someone who does not, researchers said in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association...

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