[Artemisia] New CPR Guidelines - SCA Kills!

[Jamukha Batu]

I love it! I think this should be posted at every event. ;-) This got a 
big laugh in my home where one of us is currently in an EMT course.

Jamukha


Mark Chapman wrote:

> 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
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