Cardio-Cerebral Resuscitation

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Not that this is "news" to many of us, but the word is officially out, so to speak...

Cardiac arrest victims have oxygen dissolved in their blood. Their immediate problem isn't getting more oxygen into the blood, it's getting that blood to the brain and to the heart.

When first responders used a professional version of the new technique, Bobrow and colleagues found, they saved three times more lives than they did with standard life-support techniques.

The new technique saved 8.6 times more lives among victims with the best chances of survival. Bobrow and colleagues -- including Gordon A. Ewy, MD, whose team developed the CCR technique -- report these findings in the March 12 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association. An editorial by Peberdy and colleague Joseph P. Ornato, MD, accompanies the study.

Full Story: http://www.webmd.com/news/20080311/forget-...ive-ccr-instead

Also see: http://uk.reuters.com/article/healthNews/i...162127120080311

Edited March 12, 2008 by 242steve