WASHINGTON — For the past 18 months, Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service has adopted a new approach in applying CPR, a method known as “high-performance CPR.”
Pete Piringer, spokesman for MCFRS, said high-performance CPR involved “uninterrupted chest compressions of between 100 to 120 a minute.”
“That’s pretty much as fast as you can do chest compressions,” Piringer said.
Since adopting the method, “save rates” of patients have increased from 9 percent to 40 percent. Piringer said that dramatic of an improvement in patient outcomes was the result of a number of factors, including a broader willingness of bystanders to offer help.
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Wow. Way behind the curve. That's been taught in EMT classes for four or five years now.
ReplyDeleteThat's right pumping your chest to the beat of stayin alive!
ReplyDeleteTheir way of making sure the cops kill more citizens than EMS does?
ReplyDeletePre cardial thump
ReplyDeleteThat's precOrdial & it's really defibrillating.(stops the heart momentarily)
ReplyDeleteAs one who was saved by cpr being performed on for 20 minutes, don't give up too soon. kept me going until a defibulator was located
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