Performing CPR improves a person's chance of survival during cardiac arrest. Hands-only CPR involves only chest compressions at 100-120 beats per minute. Both chest compressions and rescue breathing ...
The New England Journal of Medicine: Trial of Continuous or Interrupted Chest Compressions during CPR
During cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, the interruption of manual chest compressions for rescue breathing reduces blood flow and possibly survival.
EurekAlert!: Study finds mechanical chest compressions are equally as effective as manual CPR
"The study was designed to show a better 4-hour survival in the group treated with mechanical chest compressions, and this was not achieved," said lead investigator Sten Rubertsson, MD, PhD, professor ...
Study finds mechanical chest compressions are equally as effective as manual CPR