First aid: mouth to mouth breathing is not effective!

Forget about the mouth-to-mouth during first aid, which we often see in the movies and on TV. Chest compressions alone saves significantly more victims of heart attack, reducing the risk of damage to the brain.

A month after cardiac arrest 46% of the people who provided first aid   Only a chest compressions , They are still alive. And among those who received chest compressions with mouth-to-mouth those only 40%. Japanese researchers have shown that massage is more effective, but also it is much more comfortable and easier to carry out a completely strangers.

Experts School of Public Health at the University of Kyoto emphasize that Chest Compressions   even easier to learn. The American Heart Association also recommends that as First Aid   only chest compressions without mouth-to-mouth breathing. Only infants and children is shown as breathing resuscitation.

In itself the breath of his mouth in the mouth is the man with the heart stopped beating for the benefit, but only if it is implemented correctly. A vast majority of people have seen this method of resuscitation only on TV. Without special preparation to produce mouth-to-mouth is practically useless. In addition, if first aid has only one person in the breath can take precious seconds needed to chest compressions.

Experts urge people to teach only one method of first aid. Incidentally, in the Western countries in many public places defibrillators were installed as one of the Cardiac Intensive devices. Statistics show that these devices are able to save a great many people from death. After all, many people simply do not have time to wait for the arrival of the medical team, and stop the heart ceases to pump blood to the brain, which is why the body gets irreversible damage.

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