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In 2008, the heart group said untrained bystanders or those unwilling to do rescue breaths could do hands-only CPR until paramedics arrive or a defibrillator is used to restore a normal heart beat.

CPR First Aid Changes: Chest Presses First, Then Mouth-To-Mouth AP 2010

Dr. Gordon Ewy of the University of Arizona Sarver Heart Center thinks everyone should be doing hands-only CPR for sudden cardiac arrest, and skipping mouth-to-mouth.

CPR First Aid Changes: Chest Presses First, Then Mouth-To-Mouth AP 2010

Ewy is one of the authors of a recently published U.S. study that showed more people survived cardiac arrest when a bystander gave them hands-only CPR, compared to CPR with breaths.

CPR First Aid Changes: Chest Presses First, Then Mouth-To-Mouth AP 2010

Dr. Gordon Ewy of the University of Arizona Sarver Heart Center thinks everyone should be doing hands-only CPR for sudden cardiac arrest, and skipping mouth-to-mouth.

CPR First Aid Changes: Chest Presses First, Then Mouth-To-Mouth AP 2010

Ewy is one of the authors of a recently published U.S. study that showed more people survived cardiac arrest when a bystander gave them hands-only CPR, compared to CPR with breaths.

CPR First Aid Changes: Chest Presses First, Then Mouth-To-Mouth AP 2010

In 2008, the heart group said untrained bystanders or those unwilling to do rescue breaths could do hands-only CPR until paramedics arrive or a defibrillator is used to restore a normal heart beat.

CPR First Aid Changes: Chest Presses First, Then Mouth-To-Mouth AP 2010

"Anybody can do hands-only CPR by pushing hard and pushing fast in the center of a person's chest," said Michael Sayre, an associate professor of emergency medicine at Ohio State University and the lead author of an AHA paper in 2008 supporting the use of "hands-only" CPR.

Study Backs Simpler CPR for Patients Jennifer Corbett Dooren 2010

In the hands-only group, 8.7 percent of people survived at least 30 days, compared with 7 percent of those getting conventional CPR.

CPR studies find no benefit to mouth-to-mouth over chest compressions alone 2010

In the hands-only group, 12.5 percent of patients survived to leave the hospital, compared with 11 percent in the standard CPR group.

CPR studies find no benefit to mouth-to-mouth over chest compressions alone 2010

In one of the experiments, EMS dispatchers in two Washington cities (Seattle and Olympia) and London randomly assigned bystanders willing to be instructed over the phone to do hands-only or standard CPR on about 1,900 people in cardiac arrest.

CPR studies find no benefit to mouth-to-mouth over chest compressions alone 2010