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Hands-Only CPR Saves Lives
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(A P )— You can skip the mouth-
to-m outh breathing and ju st press
on the chest to save a life . In a m ajor
change, the American Heart Asso
c ia tio n is re co m m e n d in g that
hands-only CPR — rapid, deep
presses on the v ic tim ’ s chest until
h elparrives— w orksjustas w ell as
standard CPR fo r sudden cardiac
arrest in adults.
Experts hope bystanders w ill
now be more w illin g to ju m p in and
help i f they see someone suddenly
collapse. Hands-only CPR is sim
pler and easier to remember and
removes a big barrier fo r people
skittish about the mouth-to-m outh
breathing.
“ You only have to do tw o things.
Call 911 and push hard and fast on
the middle o f the person’ s chest,”
said Dr. Michael Sayre, an emer
gency medicine professor at O hio
State U niversity who headed the
com m ittee that made the recom
mendation.
Hands-only CPR calls fo r unin
terrupted chest presses — 1(H) a
minute— until paramedics take over
or an automated external de fib rilla -
Jared Hjelmstad (right) visits Garth Goodall at a hospital in Murrieta. Calif., days after Goodall
collapsed while working out at a health club and Hjelmstad used hands-only CPR to keep
Goodall's blood circulating until paramedics arrived.
to r is available to restore a normal
heart rhythm.
This action should be taken only
fo r adults who unexpectedly c o l
lapse, stop breathing and are unre
sponsive. The odds are that the
person is having cardiac arrest —
the heart suddenly stops — w hich
can occur after a heart attack or be
caused by other heart problems. In
such a case, the vic tim still has
ample air in the lungs and blood and
compressions keep blood (low ing
A smoker who inherits this ge
netic variation from both parents
has an 80 percent greater chance o f
lung cancer than a smoker w ithout
the variants, the researchers re
ported. A nd that same smoker on
average lights up tw o extra ciga
rettes a day and has a much harder
time q uitting than smokers who
don’ t have these genetic d iffe r
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better than nothing,” Sayre said.
A n estim ated 310,000 A m e ri
cans die each year o f cardiac ar
rest outside hospitals o r in em er
gency room s. O n ly about 6 per
cent o f those w ho are stricken
outside a h o spital su rvive , a l
though rates vary by lo ca tio n.
People w h o q u ic k ly get CPR w hile
a w a itin g m edical treatm ent have
double o r trip le the chance o f
s u rv iv in g . B ut less than a th ird o f
v ic tim s get this essential help.
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to the brain, heart and other organs.
A ch ild who collapses is more
like ly to p rim a rily have breathing
problems— and in that case, mouth-
to-mouth breathing should be used.
That also applies to adults w ho
suffer lack o f oxygen from a near
drow ning, drug overdose o r car
bon monoxide poisoning. In these
cases, p eople need m o u th -to -
mouth to get a ir into their lungs and
bloodstream.
B u tin either case, “ Something is
pinpointed a genetic lin k that makes
people more like ly to get hooked on
tobacco, causing them to smoke
more cigarettes, making it harder to
quit, and leading more often to
deadly lung cancer.
The discovery by three separate
teams o f scientists makes the stron
gest case so far fo r the biological
underpinnings o f the addiction o f
sm oking and sheds lig h t on how
genetics and cigarettes jo in forces
to cause cancer, experts said.
ences.
The genetic variations, w hich
encode nicotine receptors on cells,
could eventually helpexplain some
o f the mysteries o f chain smoking,
nicotine addiction and lung cancer
that can't be chalked up to environ
mental factors, brain biology and
statistics, experts said. These oddi
ties include why there are 100-year-
old smokers who don’ t get cancer
and people who lig h t up an occa
sional cig a re tte and d o n ’ t get
hooked.
In the last 40 years, the rate o f
adult Am ericans sm oking has been
cut from 42 percent in 1965 to less
than 21 percent now.
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