The American Heart Assn. changed the recommended procedure for administering cardio-pulmonary resuscitation, or CPR.
For years, doctors recommended that CPR be administered on patients by checking the airway first, providing breaths and then initializing chest compressions, coining the “ABC” acronym. The AHA said today that the order should be changed to CAB, recommending that compressions be applied first for “anyone who is unresponsive and not breathing normally.”
The Dallas-based organization said older method delayed the delivery of oxygen-rich blood, CPR’s ultimate goal.
“For more than 40 years, CPR training has emphasized the ABCs of CPR, which instructed people to open a victim’s airway by tilting their head back, pinching the nose and breathing into the victim’s mouth, and only then giving chest compressions,” said AHA Emergency Cardiovascular Care Committee chairman Dr. Michael Sayre, who co-authored the new guidelines.
The AHA also recommends that individuals untrained in CPR should only administer compressions, they are now required to go through a richmond hill cpr training in order to fully performed cpr. The new instructions are based on research published since the AHA last published recommended CPR procedures in 2005.
