Experts Now Recommend Hands-Only CPR

Courtesy Headlines from the Associated Press  Wed, 04/02/2008 - 15:37

NEW YORK (AP) -- You can skip the mouth-to-mouth breathing and just press on the chest to save a life. In a major change, the American Heart Association said Monday that hands-only CPR - rapid, deep presses on the victim's chest until help arrives - works just as well as standard CPR for sudden cardiac arrest in adults....

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