who here is certified to do CPR?

Question

and where did you get your certification?
I heard the new way to do CPR does not require compressions. So do you do CPR the old or new way?

Answer 1

Holy crap, where did you hear that? Just to let you know, that's completely inaccurate. The new regs. call for more compressions and fewer breaths.

Please read:
For the unresponsive adult, the lay rescuer sequence of action is as follows:

The lone rescuer should telephone the emergency response system and retrieve an AED (if available). The rescuer should then return to the victim to begin CPR and use the AED when appropriate.

The lay rescuer should open the airway and check for normal breathing. If no normal breathing is detected, the rescuer should give 2 rescue breaths.

Immediately after delivery of the rescue breaths, the rescuer should begin cycles of 30 chest compressions and 2 ventilations and use an AED as soon as it is available.

For the unresponsive infant or child, the lay rescuer sequence for action is as follows:

The rescuer will open the airway and check for breathing; if no breathing is detected, the rescuer should give 2 breaths that make the chest rise.

The rescuer should provide 5 cycles (a cycle is 30 compressions and 2 breaths) of CPR (about 2 minutes) before leaving the pediatric victim to phone 911 and get an AED for the child if available. The reasons for immediate provision of CPR are that asphyxial arrest (including primary respiratory arrest) is more common than sudden cardiac arrest in children, and the child is more likely to respond to, or benefit from, the initial CPR.


Oh, and without compressions, there is no CPR. Trained healthcare providers can provide rescue breaths alone to a person who is in respiratory arrest but not cardiac arrest. There is a huge difference. For more info., please see the link below:

http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/full/112/24_suppl/IV-12

*Please feel free to contact me on my 360 if you have any other questions or need more info.

Answer 2

I am certified to do CPR through Health First. I am also a certified EMT, and in Basic Dysrhythmia. I am not sure where you heard that you are not supposed to do compressions during CPR, but this could not be more wrong. Compressions are the most important part of CPR. I was recertified in October of last year, and the new guidlines say 30 compressions to 2 breaths.

Answer 3

The new CPR still requires compressions its just moved up to 30 instead of 15. You can always get certified through the American Heart Association.

Answer 4

I have been CPR certified for 10 years. Old way for 9 years and just last year learned the new way.

For adults who suddenly collapse, CPR is more effective if rescuers focus on chest compression over mouth-to-mouth ventilation.

Currently, CPR includes two techniques. The first is mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, the so-called breath of life. The other is chest compression: pushing down hard on a victim's chest, more than once a second, pressing it down at least an inch and a half before releasing.

A major reason why bystanders don't give CPR to people who suddenly collapse is reluctance to put their mouths on the mouth of a stricken person. That reason no longer exists.

Now, for adults who suddenly collapse, there's powerful evidence that chest compression alone is far better than doing nothing. In fact, the new evidence suggests that by interrupting lifesaving chest compressions, mouth-to-mouth resuscitation may do more harm than good.

The striking evidence comes from Ken Nagao, M.D., of Surugadai Nihon University Hospital in Tokyo, and colleagues. The researchers took a careful look at what happened to 4,068 adults who had an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest witnessed by bystanders.

More than 70 percent of the time, the bystanders did nothing when a person suddenly collapsed. Those victims were less likely to survive, and more likely to have brain damage if they did survive, than when bystanders tried to do something.

Bystanders bravely gave traditional CPR to 18 percent of victims. And those patients did much better than those who got no bystander aid.

But victims were 2.2 times less likely to suffer brain damage if they were among the 11 percent of patients who got chest compressions only — without mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.

Answer 5

Go to your local red cross. New CPR is now 30 compressions to 2 breaths at a rate of 100 compressions per minute for all. Studies have shown chest compressions to be very important in an arrest.
Shawn
CPR Instructor
EMT-P

Answer 6

CPR and AED
I was just re-certified and the "new" way is now 30 compressions/2 breaths.
I haven't heard of no compression CPR yet.

Answer 7

CPR does require compressions, it is thirty compressions now, which is more than before I think. I was CPR certified because I became a security officer recently.

Answer 8

Red Cross new way, CPR does require compressions

Answer 9

Your information is wrong. The 'new way (as of June 2006) is to do 30 compressions and 2 breaths, and there are some other useful changes.

I am certified and a staff instructor of the Red Cross. I do thing the new way.

Answer 10

I am
Find a red cross chapter or call the local hospital. Both will have classes.

The new way is different ratio of compressions to breaths. You HAVE to do compressions to keep the blood flowing through the heart.
They found the breaths weren't as vital as they thought, so now you do more compressions before you give breaths.