The elimination of rescue breathing from the CPR protocol for untrained bystanders was based on several compelling physiologic and pragmatic considerations. Mouth-to-mouth ventilation delays the ...

People who suffer cardiac arrest - in which the heart stops beating - were less likely to die in subsequent years when bystanders performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation using chest compressions only, ...

When heart attacks occur out of a hospital setting, members of the public often step in to provide cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). These bystanders are often advised by the emergency medical ...

That builds on previous research that found no short-term survival differences in adult victims given compression-only CPR instead of the standard kind, which includes mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.