Doug,
Good to send that around.
Anyone can learn to do this, and like eye/skin chemical decon, anything is better than nothing.
When this first came out, I was a volunteer teaching CPR with the American Red Cross and I went to my co-instructor and showed it to her, and she was absolutely appalled..
We were, of course, both well-trained and certified this, that and the other thing in the medical/first aid fields.
As a Board Certified Emergency Physician and Advanced Cardiac Life Support CertifiedProvider and Instructor for aI remain unconvinced that circulating deoxygenated blood really does anything, but since probably anyone can learn this, maybe it wouldn't hurt.
Alan
Alan H. Hall, M.D.
Former Emergency Physician
Medical Toxicologist
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 21:45:37 -0500
From: waltersdb**At_Symbol_Here**EARTHLINK.NET
Subject: [DCHAS-L] Fwd: New CPR technique - EVERYONE SHOULD SEE THIS
To: DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**MED.CORNELL.EDU
This is a new, simple CPR technique that everyone should learn.
Doug Walters
This short video illustrates the best demonstration and gives the simplest explanation of exactly what to do if someone near you collapses and is presumably having a heart attack.
