Chest-compression-only after drowning: a call for more research

Every now and again a publication appears that challenges long-held beliefs: that by Fukunda and colleagues from Japan, published in the current issue of Resuscitation, is surely one such.1 The authors ’ conclusion, from a large observational study of cases of drowning, is that there was no difference in the one-month neurologically-favourable survival between those victims who received bystander-initiated conventional CPR and those who received compression-only CPR.
Source: Resuscitation - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Tags: Editorial Source Type: research