AHA CPR Update Oct 2010 - FryingPanTower.Com

Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 11:36 am Post subject: AHA CPR Update Oct 2010

Being a AHA CPR / First Aid Instructor I have to stay up to date on the stuff I Teach !
The AHA changed their way to do CPR and released it this week !
Also anybody that needs a CPR & First aid course taught I can hook you up !

DALLAS (AP) - The American Heart Association has issued new guidelines when it comes to administering CPR.
Rescuers are now being urged to start with hard, fast chest compressions before giving mouth-to-mouth.
The change ditches the old "ABC" approach - "A" for airway, "B" for breathing, "C" for compressions. That called for rescuers to give two breaths first, then alternate with 30 presses.
Under the revised guidelines, rescuers using traditional cardiopulmonary resuscitation should start chest compressions immediately -- 30 chest presses, then two breaths. The change applies to adults and children, but not newborns.
The revamped guidelines also say rescuers should be pushing deeper, at least 2 inches in adults. Rescuers should pump the chest of the victim at a rate of at least 100 compressions a minute?
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Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 12:22 pm Post subject:

I understand the logic, but there are instances where this makes no sense.
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Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 1:19 pm Post subject:

They have also started a hands only CPR without breaths, The reasoning is that when a person goes into Cardiac Arrest on his last breath he has enough oyxgen in his body that it will sustain life for 8 minutes on most people , We use caponography and depending on the person and his wave form and caponography level is how many times we ventilate a minute .
I know sounds crazy .
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Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 3:16 pm Post subject:

Glad I do not have to follow those rules in my office. I can throw an ETT in place and do like I was taught! Also, in a drowning victim, this makes no sense. Just saying.

Editing to add: Hope I do not have the need to do that in my office mind you!
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Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 3:52 pm Post subject:

I think the big difference in this is more geared toward the regular person with very little to no medical training that may come across someone who has collasped and is in cardiac arrest .
Trained medical professionals have a sack full of stuff , from et tubes , lifepacks, vasopressin , amiodrone , epi, atropine, bicarb , magneisum sulfate ect .... I think that the main thing is to make sure the downed person is circulating blood until the paramedics . or a md can start advanced measures
I am also not saying I agree or disagree with this it is just the new AHA way of CPR
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Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 3:53 pm Post subject:

I understand, and am not trying to bust your balls. lol

I follow ACLS protocols anyway
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Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 4:49 pm Post subject:

Yeah me too !!!!!!! But I bet a change is in the making LOL
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