New Delhi: Patients suffering from cardiac arrest, two breaths of air in cardiopulmonary Resuscitation or CPR may be waste of time. The kiss of life can actually lower the chances of survival, reveals a new Kiss study.
The study led by the Arizona University showed that 11 per cent of heart victims are likely to survive if they received only chest compressions.
However, the survival rate can fall to six per cent if they were also given the kiss of life. Amazingly, five per cent would survive if passers-by did nothing at all.
But British heart charities insist it was important to do something – even if it was just ringing an ambulance.
“If you don’t want to do the kiss of life, stick to chest compressions. But don’t do nothing,” Ellen Mason, a senior cardiac nurse from the British Heart Foundation says.
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