April 9. 2008 Page B2 — Hands-Only CPR Saves Lives Stale Farm* Providing Insaldine and hnant al Servite Hume Off’fe. Bloomington. Illinois 61/1U Works as well as mouth-to- mouth breathing Ernest J. Hill, Jr. Agent 4946 N Vancouver Avenue Portland, OR 9/7 1/ 903 786 1103 la» 503 28b 1146 ernie lull h6mb<®statefarro tom 24 Hour Good Neighbor Service" Your Care Our First Priority I)r. Marcelitte Failla Chiropractic Physician We are located at 1716 N.E. 42nd Ave. Portland, OR 97213 (Between Broadway and Sandy Bled.) • Automobile accident injuries • Chronic headache and joint pain • Workers Compensation injuries Call for an appointment! (503)228-6140 State Farm® Providing Insurance and Financial Services Home Office. Bloomington, Illinois 61710 Michael E Harper We moved to our new location at: 9713 S.W. Capitol, Portland, OR 503-221-3050 Fax 503-227-8757 (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 (A P ) — Scientists say they have licensed Esthetician & Make-Up Artist 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. Smoking Addiction Linked to Genetics Making it harder to quit N a il tech, Skin Analyst 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. 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