Image via WikipediaBy Todd Neale, Staff Writer, MedPage TodayFor adult patients who have suffered an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, rescue breathing may not be a crucial component of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) delivered by a bystander, a meta-analysis showed.
"Our findings support the idea that emergency medical services dispatch should instruct bystanders to focus on chest-compression-only CPR in adults with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest," Nagele and his colleagues wrote. "However, whether chest-compression-only CPR should be recommended for unassisted lay bystander CPR is unclear."
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