{"id":2554,"date":"2014-07-28T11:05:04","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T16:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=2554"},"modified":"2014-07-28T11:15:45","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T16:15:45","slug":"cpr-guidelines-could-be-improved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/cpr-guidelines-could-be-improved\/","title":{"rendered":"CPR guidelines could be improved<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2547\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/28july14_PR_infographic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2547\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2547\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/28july14_PR_infographic-300x151.jpg\" alt=\"The CPR guidelines should include the head-tilt\u2013chin-lift technique in addition to the recommended chest compression, argues a commentary in CMAJ. (Photo credit: CMAJ)\" width=\"300\" height=\"151\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/28july14_PR_infographic-300x151.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/28july14_PR_infographic.jpg 780w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2547\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The CPR guidelines should include the head-tilt\u2013chin-lift technique in addition to the recommended chest compression, argues a commentary in CMAJ. (Photo credit: CMAJ)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Three physicians argue for re-introducing the traditional \u2018head-tilt-chin-lift\u2019 technique to cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) for untrained bystanders in a new commentary article. The technique was eliminated as part of an effort to make CPR instructions easier to understand and thus more likely to be used.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The authors say that completely removing\u00a0mouth-to-mouth instructions is dangerous for patients with cardiac arrest from a noncardiac cause such as a respiratory problem, which happens as much as 15% of the time.\u00a0<\/span>They\u00a0conclude that this additional technique would be a good step to increase the actual survival rate of 14% with compression-only CPR.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmaj.ca\/content\/early\/2014\/07\/28\/cmaj.131847\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in the\u00a0<em>Canadian Medical Association Journal<span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/em>on\u00a0<strong>July 28, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Anthony Ho, Queen\u2019s University, Ontario<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three physicians argue for re-introducing the traditional \u2018head-tilt-chin-lift\u2019 technique to cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) for untrained bystanders in a new commentary article. The technique was eliminated as part of an effort to make CPR instructions easier to understand and thus more likely to be used.\u00a0 The authors say that completely removing\u00a0mouth-to-mouth instructions is dangerous for patients [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2547,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[2036,51,53,50,2037,476],"class_list":["post-2554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-cpr","tag-health","tag-medicine","tag-ontario","tag-opinion","tag-public-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/28july14_PR_infographic.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-Fc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2554"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2592,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554\/revisions\/2592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}