[Artemisia] New CPR Guidelines - SCA Kills!

[Mark Chapman]

This is from the chirurgeon list, but everyone should be awair of this!


> From the "Don't Let the BoD Hear About This" Department:
>
> From the new Guidelines to be published in Circulation (released online
> today):
>
> Part 3: Overview of CPR
> Epidemiology
> "SCA is a leading cause of death in the United State and Canada. Although
> estimates of the annual number of deaths due to out-of-hospital SCA vary
> widely, data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates
> that in the United States approximately 330,000 people die annually in the
> out-of-hospital and emergency department settings from coronary heard
> disease. About 250,000 of these deaths occur in the out-of-hospital
> setting. The annual incidence of SCA in North America is ~0.55 per 1000
> population"
>
> Looks like we've been under-reporting codes to Corporate! :-)
>
> [Tongue firmly in cheek here gang - SCA is Sudden Cardiac Arrest in this 
> usage]
>
> I haven't had a chance to do more than glance at the new standards, but
> they've thrown out rescue breaths for lay rescuers. Yup, they're telling
> people to do compressions on people with a heartbeat. Time to write my
> letter to the editor...
>
> In Service to Physick and Chirurgy,
> Galen
>
> Magister Galenus Ockhamnesis
> Friar Galen of Ockham, MC, OP
> Chirurgeon's Point: http://www.chirurgeon.org