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Patrick John Sweeney, P.C.
Patrick John Sweeney
Attorney at Law
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Portland, Oregon
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Hands-only CPR Saves Lives
Technique
simplifies
procedure
(AP) — Hands-only CPR doesn't
just eliminate the "yuck factor." A
new study shows it can save more
lives.
It's the first large American study
to show more adults survived car
diac arrest when a bystander gave
them continuous chest presses to
simulate a heartbeat, compared to
traditional CPR with mouth-to-
mouth breathing.
"Anyone who can put one hand
on top of the other, lock their elbows
and push hard and fast can do this.
No risk, no fear of causing harm,"
said lead author Dr. Ben Bobrow of
the Arizona Department of Health
Services in Phoenix.
"We want to take away all the
reasons bystanders do nothing
when they witness another person
collapse."
With hands-only CPR, advocates
say, potential rescuers don't have
to contemplate what for some could
be the "yuck factor" of putting their
mouth to an unconscious person's
mouth and breathing for them.
For others, the trimmed-down
Jessica Kocian practices a first aid response for CPR during a first
aid class at the Red Cross in Chicago.
method simplifies a confusing pro
cedure learned years ago and barely
remembered— How many breaths?
How many chest compressions?
Are you supposed to pinch the
nose?
Standard CPR with mouth-to-
m outh and chest com pressions is
still best for very small children
and victims o f near-drow ning and
drug overdose, experts say, in
stances where breathing problems
probably led to the cardiac arrest.
N onstop chest com pressions
work better for adult cardiac arrest
because most people take too long to
do mouth-to-mouth, said senior au
thor Dr. Gordon Ewy of the Univer
sity of Arizona Sarver Heart Center.
After cardiac arrest, oxygenated
blood can't get to the brain without
help. Most rescuers take about 16
seconds to perform two CPR breaths
— long enough to starve the organs
of oxygen.
" Your hands are their heart," Ewy
said. "When you stop pressing on
the chest, blood flow to the
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discrimination
The American Dental Associa
tion has issued an acknowledgement
that it deeply regrets not taking a
stronger stand against discrimina
tory membership practices during
the pre-civil rights era.
Dr. Raymond Gist, ADA presi
dent, said the Oct. 29 announce
m ent re in fo rc e s the d en tal
association’s commitment to a di
verse and inclusive profession,
moving us forward in a new spirit of
collaboration to advance the dental
profession and the oral health o f the
public.
“In looking forward, we also must
look back,” said Gist, the first Afri
can American to serve as ADA presi
dent. “Along with acknowledging
past mistakes and to build a stron
ger, collaborative platform for fu
ture accomplishments, the ADA
apologizes to dentists for not
strongly enforcing non-discrimina-
tory membership practices prior to
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1965. These are not my words
alone— they embody a resolution
adopted by the ADA Officers and
Board of Trustees.”
Gist said that in the 45 years since
he was a dental student, there have
been improvements in the diversity
of the dental profession, member-
ship and leadership of the ADA,
and in initiatives to reduce dispari
ties in the public’s oral health.
He said that although doors
have been opened, more can be
done to encourage careers in den
tistry, citing enrollm ent in U.S.
dental schools not keeping pace
w ith
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g ro w th
of
underrepresented minorities in the
U.S. population.
Gist explained that while A fri
can A m e ric an s and H isp an ic
Am ericans each totaled about 13
percent and 16 percent of the U.S.
p o p u latio n , resp ectiv ely , only
about 6 percent of dental students
were African American and 6 per
cent were Hispanic American. He
also noted that when it com es to
the oral health of the public, A fri
can A m erican s and H isp an ic
A m ericans suffer higher rates of
dental diseases.
“The m ore our p rofession
reaches out and makes everyone
- from every walk o f life and with
every career am bition - feel w el
come, the more talented our next
generation o f dentists will be,”
G ist said.