Hold the presses. Stop mouth-to-mouth; just keep pushing the chest, hard and fast.
New guidelines have just been released in Canada that are urging bystanders who aren’t trained in CPR – or those who fear their skills are rusty – to provide ‘hands-only” or chest compression only CPR on adults and not stop to give “rescue breaths”
Push hard and fast on the centre of the chest at a rate of a 100 compressions per minute. Compressions need to be forceful and deep as this will keep oxygen rich blood flowing to the heart and brain.