Chest Compressions May Be Most Important Part of CPR
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参考答案: The American Heart Association changed its guidelines for CPR
chest presses in 2005. It said people should increase the number of
chest presses from 15 to 30 for every two breaths given.
Gordon Ewy is a heart doctor at the University of Arizona College
of Medicine in Tucson. He wrote a report that appeared with the
study. Doctor Ewy thinks the CPR guidelines should be changed
again. He said the heart association should remove rescue breaths
from the guidelines.
He argues that more witnesses to cardiac arrests would provide
treatment if rescue breaths are not a part of CPR. He says this
would save lives. Studies show that many people do not want to
perform mouth-to-mouth breathing on a stranger for fear of getting
a disease.
Cardiac arrest kills more than 300000 people in the United States
every year. The American H