Re: [EMS-L] LA Times article -- no mouth to mouth for CPR?

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Why is the media treating this like it's new news? Oh I forgot they are the

media!

Did we not discuss this with some fervor about like 2 years ago?

Anecdotally, 20 years ago when we first started Pre-Arrival instructions in

NJ we had many callers balk at the idea of M2M on strangers, AIDS was the

" new " thing etc. In those cases with no data with no prompts and at times at

odds

with certain " cards " we'd tell them to do compressions anyway, something had

to be better then nothing the " Stare of life " is not likely to do anything

for a patient.

Louis N. Molino, Sr., CET

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