Chest Compression Alone Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Is Associated With Better Long-Term Survival Compared with Standard Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

Florence Dumas, Thomas D. Rea, Carol Fahrenbruch, Mårten Rosenqvist, Jonas Faxén, Leif Svensson, Mickey S. Eisenberg, Katarina Bohm

Circulation · 2012 · 74 citations · 28 references

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Abstract

The findings provide strong support for long-term mortality benefit of dispatcher CPR instruction strategy consisting of chest compression alone rather than chest compression plus rescue breathing among adult patients with cardiac arrest requiring dispatcher assistance.

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