You "should" do the breathe step - but you "should" have a mask. Without a mask, it is "optional" - patient has a better chance if you do, you have a better chance if you don't.
And the current formula is 30 compressions then two effective breaths, up from 15/2 when I last trained five years back, and way off the 5/1 when I first did it.
__________________
Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008.
Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.
|