CPR: Compression Only Saves Lives
New findings reveal that the chances of surviving cardiac arrest are improved by instigating chest compressions only instead of the standard CPR (including mouth-to-mouth breathing).
Five percent of victims survive without any form of CPR being administered to them. Those who receive CPR have a 6-percent chance of survival. Chest pumping alone has an 11-percent survival rate.
Trends have also changed among those trained in administering CPR. The number of cases where CPR-trained people treated an individual using chest compressions only has risen to 77 percent.
Only 20 percent of people would be willing to perform conventional CPR if needed.
The American Heart Association recommends that people use compression-only CPR when they witness a collapse in public. Compression-only CPR was designed to stem the tide of growing unwillingness among the population to perform CPR.
