The American Heart Association revised its guidelines Monday, expressing hands-only resessitation works just as well as the standard mouth-to-mouth CPR for sudden cardiac arrests.
People in need of CPR who receive it quickly have double or triple the chance of surviving, so barriers created with lip-locking CPR can now be diminished in the minds of the frigid people who once avoided the awkward rescue tatic.
"You only have to do two things. Call 911 and push hard and fast on the middle of the person's chest," said Dr. Michael Sayre, and emergency medicine professor at Ohio State University who headed the committee that made the reccommendation.
Hands-only CPR should only be executed if an adult collapses because odds are they are in cardiac arrest resulting from a heart attack and air needs needs to circulate in the lungs and blood to sustain flow into the brain, heart, and other organs.
If found in a situation that calls for hands-only CPR, press down 100 times a minute uninterruptedly on the chest until paramedics come and normalize the heart's ryhthm.
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