Efficacy of providing rescue breaths?

[Stealth Mode]

In a year or 2 chances are the standards will change AGAIN,I have been a Firefighter for 20 years.

 

[DaleC]

...My understanding is that if the person has gone into cardiac arrest, no amount of chest compressions is going to do anything to get the heart started, and at best you are only buying time?

Not true. How do you think people were revived before AED's? I've seen and done it myself.

 

[Tigerman]

Not true. How do you think people were revived before AED's? I've seen and done it myself.

Odds arent exactly great though...
Even so, buying time for a portable defibrilator or getting to a stationary one and/or professionals to arrive can be exactly whats needed..

 

[jIM STEELE]

I know of a life saved just 6 weeks ago by the old dose-do and a couple of rescue breaths on a club dive at point lobes. the diver spent the night at Monterrey marmoreal hospt. and was fine.