{"id":1826,"date":"2010-10-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/new-cpr-guidelines-announced-get-to-know-the-latest-life-saving-techniques-in-a-cardiac-emergency\/"},"modified":"2010-10-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-20T04:00:00","slug":"new-cpr-guidelines-announced-get-to-know-the-latest-life-saving-techniques-in-a-cardiac-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/new-cpr-guidelines-announced-get-to-know-the-latest-life-saving-techniques-in-a-cardiac-emergency\/","title":{"rendered":"New CPR Guidelines Announced; Get to Know the Latest Life-Saving Techniques in a Cardiac Emergency!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Every five years the American Heart Association reviews and releases updated CPR Guidelines.  These updated guidelines, which were announced Monday, assure that the most life-saving techniques available are in the hands of frontline responders to cardiac emergencies.<\/p>\n<p>EMT-Paramedic faculty member Bob Elling is the media spokesperson and a local board member for the AHA. He spoke with several news outlets yesterday about the new guidelines.\n<\/p>\n<p>Here are three highlights:\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\tIf a bystander is not trained in CPR, the bystander should provide Hands-Only&#8217; (compression-only) CPR for the adult victim who suddenly collapses, with an emphasis to &#8216;push hard and fast&#8217; on the center of the chest\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\tA focus on doing chest compressions first, when administering CPR (the focus used to be on airway and breathing first)\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\tChest compressions on adult patients should reach a depth of two inches down on the breastbone\n<\/p>\n<p>Learn more by watching this <a href=\"http:\/\/heartsonboard.camp9.org\/\"target=\"_blank\">YouTube video<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>Learn more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.Heart.org\/CPR\"target=\"_blank\">www.Heart.org\/CPR<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.Heart.org\/ECCguidelines\"target=\"_blank\">www.Heart.org\/ECCguidelines<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000 by\u00a0e.bryant<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Every five years the American Heart Association reviews and releases updated CPR Guidelines. These updated guidelines, which were announced&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}