No mouth to mouth for CPR?

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Here is the actual Lancet article attached if anyone is interested.

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Subject: LA Times article -- no mouth to mouth for CPR?

CPR study: Nix the mouth-to-mouth

Heart attack victims fare twice as well with chest compressions only than

with mouth-to-mouth too.

By H. Maugh II

Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

March 16, 2007

Overturning a century of conventional medical wisdom, Japanese researchers

reported Thursday that simple chest compressions without mouth-to-mouth

ventilation save twice as many heart attack victims as traditional CPR.

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