New CPR

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Bullitt

Another piece of the puzzle is that it seems when the general public is given very simple, clear guidelines on how to do compression only CPR, they are much more likely to intervene in a cardiac situation since they are more confident in their abilities. That then leads to higher survival rates since at least something is being done during that golden window where minutes matter until more advanced life support via EMS can arrive and take over. I doubt CPR for the professional rescuer will change since we have access to oxygen, bag-valve masks, airway adjuncts, IV's, drugs, etc. It will be interesting to see where this goes though.

There will always be a distinction between pre-hospital and hospital based CPR. The current research on pre-hospital CPR as posted is actually based on sound research. You can't compare the apples and oranges of pre-hospital and hospital based CPR with the added element of medical training and lay training. Just a thought.