Kiss Of Life

The first larger-scale study comparing cardiac arrest patients treated with or without mouth-to-mouth resuscitation outside a hospital setting found that survival rates were almost twice as high if stricken patients received chest-compression cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) alone. Mouth-to-mouth takes too much time away from chest compressions. However, for respiratory arrest such as near-drowning, drug overdose and choking, the standard CPR technique of two breaths after every 30 chest compressions is still appropriate....