First aid: cardiopulmonary resuscitation without a ventilator possible

First responders feel themselves to be in precarious situations, often overwhelmed, especially when the last First-aid course. To take quick action, without Hesitation, life is but saving. A study from Sweden shows that the cardiac massage for resuscitation is much more important than the ventilation, which can be omitted in case of doubt, also. If the threshold for a revival will be reduced, this can save lives.

When the heart is exposed, each First-aid measure – even if it is performed by laymen – better than no life-saving measures. To come to this conclusion, researchers at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, in their study 30.445 people with cardiac arrest. They found that the survival rate for a cardiac massage without artificial respiration with 14.3 per cent was more than twice as high as without resuscitation (7.1 percent), even if the best results were obtained by a Standard resuscitation (16.2 percent).

Between 2000 and 2017, the number of patients in whom a cardiac massage without artificial respiration was carried out six times. A total of 40 percent of the patients with cardiac arrest received no First aid – a result that urgently needs to be improved. First-aiders should be avoided in such cases by no means afraid of making mistakes, resuscitation measures until the rescue arrives the car.

In 2005, it was recommended in the European guideline, the first responders may be limited to the heart-pressure massage, if you are unsure of how to make a ventilation &ndash to perform; In 2010, this statement was reaffirmed again, to lower the threshold for life-saving measures.

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