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9-1-1 dispatchers can save more lives by coaching bystanders in CPR
Statement Highlights:
Dispatchers should help 9-1-1 callers identify cardiac arrest victims and coach callers to provide immediate CPR.
If more dispatchers followed these processes, thousands of lives could be saved every year.
Communities [...]
Chest Compression Only CPR
Not long ago, a story ran on a national morning talk show about a new way of performing CPR using chest compressions only. The story was mistakenly interpreted as “new guidelines,†and it left many wondering about the validity of chest compression only CPR. The following is The American Heart Associations position on chest compression [...]