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by: EricHiatt



Compression only CPR was approved by American Heart Association in March of 2008. Chest compressions are done in the same manner as conventional CPR except rescue breaths are not given. The biggest difference if you choose to do compression only CPR is that you have to perform 100 compression per minute opposed to cycles of 30 compression with 2 breaths. Compression only CPR is not recommended for children or infants or any other instance not involving the heart, such as drowning, choking.


November 15, 2010 by EricHiatt
Category: Reference
Tags: cpr, compression only cpr, first aid
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That makes sense. I tell my classes that if you forget everything you learn about cpr, at least push on the persons chest. I think the next cpr is over hauled, they won't teach the breathing part at all. I think it will be just chest compressions for bystander care.
November 24, 2010 by: EricHiatt

I take it back, although it was said differently. They did say if we did not want to do the rescue breaths, CPR alone would suffice. They didn't mention it as being approved by the American Heart Association though. Maybe it's because we are in the UK.
November 24, 2010 by: malycom

@malycom thats surprising its been around for awhile. Its always better to do compression only than to do nothing at all. If you are unable or unwilling to do breathing, just do compressions. The difference is you have to do 100 per minute. I have been teaching cpr for 6 ye
November 24, 2010 by: EricHiatt

I'm one of the First Aiders at work and have just done a refresher course for the defib (heart start) machine. No one has mentioned this at all. Very interesting and I will look further at this.
November 24, 2010 by: malycom

Our local protocols finally changed to reflect this last month. Good info.
November 16, 2010 by: rockynate