CPR
Posted: May 13th, 2006, 12:54 pm
My fishing colleagues:
I wanted to pass something on that everyone should know...that is CPR. Especially if you have children or older parents...you could save their life.
Some areas 911 centers do not use medical protocols like we use in Leon County. They cannot tell you how to do CPR over the phone. Call the American Red Cross in your area to find a class near you.
For you folks who may know how to do CPR, unless you have recently been certified, the procedures have changed. There are now more compressions delivered than before. Data has shown that for an adult that has just collapsed from cardiac arrest that the compressions are more important than rescue breaths. A cardiac arrest victim responds to defibrillation (shocking) better when the heart has been compressed more and thus the better chance for survival. The old way of CPR had too many pauses in it to do the breaths..those pauses drastically reduced the survival rate.
For the first time,for lay rescuers a universal compression-ventilation ratio (30:2) is recommended for all single rescuers of infant, child, and adult victims (excluding newborns). Some skills (eg, rescue breathing without chest compressions) will no longer be taught to lay rescuers. The goal of the changes is to make CPR easier for all rescuers to learn, remember, and perform.
I wanted to pass something on that everyone should know...that is CPR. Especially if you have children or older parents...you could save their life.
Some areas 911 centers do not use medical protocols like we use in Leon County. They cannot tell you how to do CPR over the phone. Call the American Red Cross in your area to find a class near you.
For you folks who may know how to do CPR, unless you have recently been certified, the procedures have changed. There are now more compressions delivered than before. Data has shown that for an adult that has just collapsed from cardiac arrest that the compressions are more important than rescue breaths. A cardiac arrest victim responds to defibrillation (shocking) better when the heart has been compressed more and thus the better chance for survival. The old way of CPR had too many pauses in it to do the breaths..those pauses drastically reduced the survival rate.
For the first time,for lay rescuers a universal compression-ventilation ratio (30:2) is recommended for all single rescuers of infant, child, and adult victims (excluding newborns). Some skills (eg, rescue breathing without chest compressions) will no longer be taught to lay rescuers. The goal of the changes is to make CPR easier for all rescuers to learn, remember, and perform.
