CPR Training
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CPR Training
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CPR FACTS
· Modern CPR was developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s. (James learned it in 1962)
· Two Doctors discovered mouth-to-mouth ventilation (Drs. James Elam and Peter Safar).
· Three Doctors (early 1960) discovered the benefit of chest compression to achieve artificial circulation. (Drs. Kouwenhoven, Knickerbocker, and Jude)
· Mouth-to-mouth and chest compression were combined to form today's CPR
· Mouth-to-mouth resuscitation was described in the Bible (mostly performed by midwives to resuscitate newborns) it fell out of practice until it was rediscovered in the 1950s.
· Sudden cardiac arrest - leading cause of death in adults. · · Most arrests occur in persons with underlying heart disease.
· 75% of all cardiac arrests happen in people's homes.
· There has never been a confirmed case of bloodborne pathogens transmitted by mouth-to-mouth CPR.
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