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Tuesday 14 September 2010

Fwd: Use CPR without the kiss of life- Experts advise (video link below)


Until the second mention of Saint Philomena is me!

Of interest I thinks!

Sancte Philomena Ora Pro Nobis!


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I don't know about the video but Lancet says:



"Cardiac-only resuscitation by bystanders is the preferable approach to resuscitation for adult patients with witnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, especially those with apnoea, shockable rhythm, or short periods of untreated arrest."



BBC Says:

"They checked their theory by looking at the outcomes of more than 4,000 adult patients who had been helped by bystanders.

They found chest-compression-only resuscitation was the clear winner compared with conventional CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or mouth-to-mouth breathing together with chest compressions).
Colin Elding of the British Heart Foundation said a number of studies had shown it could be as effective as combined mouth-to-mouth ventilation and compression in many cases.
But he said it was right for CPR guidelines to still include mouth-to-mouth.
He added: "The current guidelines state, however, that for 'lay person' CPR, if the rescuer is unwilling or unable to give rescue breaths they should give chest compressions only and that these should be continuous at a rate of 100 per minute. The BHF believes this is sound advice.

"Cardiac arrests are a serious problem in the UK, which is why the BHF recently launched its Doubt Kills campaign, to encourage people experiencing potential heart attack symptoms to call 999.""



Last Updated: Friday, 16 March 2007, 00:03 GMT 
Drop 'kiss of life', urge medics


Chest compressions help pump blood round the body
Advising first-aiders to give the "kiss of life" is off-putting 
and unnecessary, say medics.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6454013.stm









And from the New England Journal of Medicine


"

RESULTS

Data were analyzed for 241 patients randomly assigned to receive chest compression alone and 279 assigned to chest compression plus mouth-to-mouth ventilation. Complete instructions were delivered in 62 percent of episodes for the group receiving chest compression plus mouth-to-mouth ventilation and 81 percent of episodes for the group receiving chest compression alone (P=0.005). Instructions for compression required 1.4 minutes less to complete than instructions for compression plus mouth-to-mouth ventilation. Survival to hospital discharge was better among patients assigned to chest compression alone than among those assigned to chest compression plus mouth-to-mouth ventilation (14.6 percent vs. 10.4 percent), but the difference was not statistically significant (P=0.18).

CONCLUSIONS

The outcome after CPR with chest compression alone is similar to that after chest compression with mouth-to-mouth ventilation, and chest compression alone may be the preferred approach for bystanders inexperienced in CPR."

Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation by Chest Compression Alone or with Mouth-to-Mouth Ventilation

Alfred Hallstrom, Ph.D., Leonard Cobb, M.D., Elise Johnson, B.A., and Michael Copass, M.D.
N Engl J Med 2000; 342:1546-1553May 25, 2000


"

RESULTS

Of the 1941 patients who met the inclusion criteria, 981 were randomly assigned to receive chest compression alone and 960 to receive chest compression plus rescue breathing. We observed no significant difference between the two groups in the proportion of patients who survived to hospital discharge (12.5% with chest compression alone and 11.0% with chest compression plus rescue breathing, P=0.31) or in the proportion who survived with a favorable neurologic outcome in the two sites that assessed this secondary outcome (14.4% and 11.5%, respectively; P=0.13). Prespecified subgroup analyses showed a trend toward a higher proportion of patients surviving to hospital discharge with chest compression alone as compared with chest compression plus rescue breathing for patients with a cardiac cause of arrest (15.5% vs. 12.3%, P=0.09) and for those with shockable rhythms (31.9% vs. 25.7%, P=0.09).

CONCLUSIONS

Dispatcher instruction consisting of chest compression alone did not increase the survival rate overall, although there was a trend toward better outcomes in key clinical subgroups. The results support a strategy for CPR performed by laypersons that emphasizes chest compression and minimizes the role of rescue breathing. (Funded in part by the Laerdal Foundation for Acute Medicine and the Medic One Foundation; ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT00219687.)"

CPR with Chest Compression Alone or with Rescue Breathing

Thomas D. Rea, M.D., Carol Fahrenbruch, M.S.P.H., Linda Culley, B.A., Rachael T. Donohoe, Ph.D., Cindy Hambly, E.M.T., Jennifer Innes, B.A., Megan Bloomingdale, E.M.T., Cleo Subido, Steven Romines, M.S.P.H., and Mickey S. Eisenberg, M.D., Ph.D.
N Engl J Med 2010; 363:423-433July 29, 2010


"This article has no abstract; the first 100 words appear below.
The major determinants of survival after witnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrest due to ventricular fibrillation include whether a bystander initiates cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and how quickly defibrillation is accomplished.
The now-classic observations of Eisenberg et al. were that among patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest due to ventricular fibrillation, 43 percent survived to leave the hospital if CPR was initiated by a bystander within four minutes and if definitive therapy was delivered within eight minutes.1 Survival decreased to less than 7 percent if basic CPR was not initiated until 8 minutes, and no patient survived after 16 minutes of untreated ventricular fibrillation."

Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation — Strengthening the Links in the Chain of Survival

Gordon A. Ewy, M.D.
N Engl J Med 2000; 342:1599-1601May 25, 2000



Sancte Philomena Ora Pro Nobis!


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Subject: NEW CPR METHOD

This is so much better.......easier to remember.........let's share it.
Sure is a lot more likely that someone would do this than the old method.





THIS IS WORTH SHARING WITH ALL YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY
The following video on a new method of CPR only takes a few minutes to watch....and those few minutes spent, could SAVE A LIFE! 


interesting email doing the rounds, from some country or other


Article by Marc Aupiais

I must note, that I do not believe in corporate punishment, and I am not endorsing or opposing this email, but it should make one think! ...about what? About the effect societal messages have on children; they may not always be the proximate cause of murder, suicide etc, but they may well be a cause without which these would not happen in many circumstances, it has also been proven that condom distribution and education in schools, is less effective than abstinence education for the purposes it claims to promote:

"WOW, WHAT A WAKEUP CALL!! 

Dear God: 

Why didn't you save the school children at ?. ..

Moses Lake, Washington 2/2/96 
Bethel, Alaska 2/19/97
Pearl, Mississippi 10/1/97
West Paducah, Kentucky 12/1/97
Stamp, Arkansas 12/15/97
Jonesboro, Arkansas 3/24/98
Edinboro, Pennsylvania 4/24/98
Fayetteville, Tennessee 5/19/98 
Springfield, Oregon 5/21/98
Richmond, Virginia 6/15/98
Littleton, Colorado 4/20/99
Taber, Alberta, Canada 5/28/99
Conyers, Georgia 5/20/99
Deming, New Mexico 11/19/99
Fort Gibson, Oklahoma 12/6/99
Santee, California 3/ 5/01 
El Cajon, California 3/22/01
And
Blacksburg, Va.4/16/07

Sincerely,

Concerned Student
 

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Reply:
Dear Concerned Student:
Sorry
I am not allowed in schools.  
Sincerely, 

God

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How did this get started?...

Let's see,
I think it started when Madeline Murray O'Hare complained 
She didn't want any prayer in our schools. 

And we said, OK.

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Then,  someone said you better not
Read the Bible in school;
The Bible that says 
'thou shalt not kill, 
Thou shalt not steal,
And love your neighbors as yourself
,'

And we said, OK... 

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Dr. Benjamin Spock said
We shouldn't spank our children
When they misbehaved 
Because their little personalities
Would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem.

And we said,
An expert should know what he's talking about
So we won't spank them anymore..

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Then someone said
Teachers and principals better not
Discipline our children when they misbehave.
And the school administrators said
No faculty member in this school
Better touch a student when they misbehave 
Because we don't want any bad publicity,
And we surely don't want to be sued.

And we accepted their reasoning...

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Then someone said,
let's let our daughters have abortions if they want, 
And they won't even have to tell their parents.

And we said, that's a grand idea.

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Then some wise school board member said,
Since boys will be boys 
And they're going to do it anyway,
let's give our sons all the condoms they want, 
So they can have all the fun they desire, 
And we won't have to tell their parents they got them at school. 

And we said, that's another great idea...
 

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Then some of our top elected officials said
It doesn't matter what we do in private as long as we do our jobs.

And we said,
It doesn't matter what anybody,
  including the President,
Does in private as long as we have jobs and the economy is good.... 

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And someone else took that appreciation a step further
And published pictures of nude children 
And then stepped further still by
Making them available on the Internet.

And we said, everyone's entitled to free speech....

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And the entertainment industry said,
let's make TV shows and movies that promote 
Profanity, violence and illicit sex...
And let's record music that encourages 
Rape, drugs, murder, suicide, and satanic themes...

And we said,
it's just entertainment
And it has no adverse effect 
And nobody takes it seriously anyway,
So go right ahead.

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Now we're asking ourselves
Why our children have no conscience,
 
Why they don't know right from wrong,
And why it doesn't bother them to 
Kill strangers, classmates or even themselves.
 

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Undoubtedly, 
If we thought about it long and hard enough,
We could figure it out.
I'm sure it has a great deal to do with...
 

'WE REAP WHAT WE SOW' 

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Pass it on
If you think it has merit!
If not then just discard it...
But if you discard this thought process,

Then don't you dare sit back and complain about 
What bad shape this country is in!!

 
 Why is it our children can not read a Bible in school,
but can in Prison."



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