Cardio-pulmonary resuscitation/Heart attack symptoms: "There's a huge controversy over the new cardio-pulmonary resuscitation guidelines. In this program you can hear both sides of the debate. Plus: Professor Kathleen Dracup, Dean of the School of Nursing at the University of California, San Francisco, discusses heart attack symptoms."
I haven't yet done the new CPR training but it will come up and I shall leave any of my thoughts about it until I have trined with the people I trust and hear what they have to say. In the mean time this site offers some good information and dicussion. I was a bit dubfounded because for years we have had the standard practice and now it seems to have been changed quite considerably. Given it means life or death then we have to be able to have a clear approach and we have to be comfortable with what we are doing or just doing it because it's better for the victim. We also need to know we are doing the best we can do . Recognising the heart attack in the forst place is essential because for some people it is not obvious. So this site offers more assistance in that respect. Yes, it's scary, no , you do not want to get it wrong but , in my experience , you hold the fort until the experts arrive and the holding the fort can make a real difference. When you know that , you just do it. Action is better than inaction.
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