Monday - July 15, 2013

Disco Saves Lives

The “new” version of CPR, called Continuous Compression CPR, does away with that old school “count ‘em and breath ‘em” that so many of us were taught. No more mouth to mouth contact with strangers, trying to put air in their lungs. No more worries about head positioning or lolling tongues. No, these days it’s just pump pump pump. OK, it’s “Call 911, then pump pump pump”. And the meter for it just happens to be a disco beat. ONE and TWO and THREE and FOUR.

Here’s the quote from the American Heart Association

“We have recommended this approach for bystanders since 1993, after we found in our experimental laboratory that survival was better with Chest-Compression-Only CPR compared to doing nothing until the simulated arrival of paramedics. It is gratifying to see the AHA make this important endorsement as we think it will help save thousands of lives.”

After Sarver Heart Center researcher Karl Kern, in collaboration with resuscitation researchers in the United Kingdom, discovered that the “two quick breaths” standard CPR called for between chest compressions took an average of 16 seconds to complete, laboratory experiments at the Sarver Heart Center revealed that survival was better with Chest-Compression-Only CPR.

In the meantime, several observational studies in humans reported Chest-Compression-Only or Continuous-Chest-Compression CPR produced the same survival as standard CPR. In a previous publication, Ewy noted, “It is interesting that Continuous-Chest-Compression CPR, a technique that has not been advocated or taught and is most often performed by individuals not trained in CPR, results in a survival rate similar to that of our guidelines-advocated approach, on which millions of hours and millions of dollars have been spent in education and advocacy.”

In 2007, the Resuscitation Research Group reported that neurological normal survival was better with Chest-Compression-Only CPR even when compared to the updated guidelines calling for 30 chest compressions between 2 breaths.

“Compression-Only CPR is much simpler to perform than traditional CPR and therefore bystanders are more likely to do it,” Ewy said. “Most importantly, the new recommendations remove the largest obstacle, the requirement for mouth-to-mouth ventilation, commonly called ‘rescue breathing,’ that has kept many bystanders from taking appropriate action.”

And here’s the video, with comedian/doctor Ken Jeong. We saw this at a local firehouse fundraiser dinner a couple months back. They introduced it, but it almost seems like a spoof. It isn’t. This one was made with a group of B List celebrities, so please ... can somebody ID the Rescue Girl on the right? Holy shi* ... she probably causes as many heart attacks as she cures. Wow. Reminds me of Carmen Electra before all the plastic surgery. Yum.

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