Chest compression-only CPR improves survival in cardiac arrest patients

Friday, October 15, 2010 - 07:01 in Health & Medicine

Heart attack patients whose hearts have stopped beating and who receive cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) from bystanders fare better if their resuscitators skip the rescue breaths and do only chest compression, according to a study led by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis...

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