Friday, February 19, 2010

Doing away with mouth-to-mouth for bystander CPR



This Mayo Clinic YouTube video has gone viral. It's landing in in-boxes, and being forwarded to more friend's in-boxes. (Like the Faberge shampoo advertisements -- "you tell two friends, and they tell two friends, and so on and so on.")

And that's a good thing!

The video is a couple minutes long, and it teaches a simple potentially life-saving skill--chest compression-only CPR. That means no mouth-to-mouth. Just chest compressions.

Surely you've got 2 minutes to watch the demo. Then file the information away in your head, and hopefully you'll never have to use it.

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