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Is mouth to mouth necessary in CPR?

When people hear the term CPR, they often envision a mouth-to-mouth procedure, combined with applied pressure on the chest.
When it comes to promoting the use of hands-only CPR, Los Angeles County officials aren’t saving their breath. That potentially life-saving step is now at the heart of a campaign to train half a ...
A biomedical engineer at Purdue University has developed a new method to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation that promises to be more effective than standard CPR because it increases nourishing ...