New Cardiac Resuscitation Protocol Improves Survival - CME Teaching Brief - MedPage Today
TUSCON, Ariz., April 13 - When performed by EMS personnel, a new approach to cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) substantially improves the survival rate for most patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, according to researchers.
The new approach, dubbed cardiocerebral resuscitation (CCR), emphasizes fast, forceful chest compressions to get blood moving through the body over airway management, said Michael J. Kellum, M.D., of the University of Arizona College of Medicine here.
Compared with standard CPR, the new approach nearly tripled survival rates during a one-year study, Dr. Kellum and colleagues reported online in the American Journal of Medicine.
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