CPR by medics: Keep pumping or stop for rescue breathing?

The largest study so far of the outcomes of CPR performed by medics for people suffering an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest was conducted at 114 agencies across the United States and Canada. The researchers unexpectedly found that continuous chest compressions did not offer survival advantages, when compared to interrupting manual chest pumping to perform rescue breathing, nor were continuous chest compressions better in protecting brain function among those who survived and were later discharged from the hospital.

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