Calls grow for adoption of "new CPR"

"Soaring survival rates for Arizona cardiac-arrest victims given the 'new CPR' are receiving national attention, boosting the push to adopt the technique worldwide." "Source: "'New CPR' saves more lives," Seattle Post Intelligencer, March 29, 2008.) "Pioneered by heart researchers at the University of Arizona, the new technique stresses hard and fast chest compressions instead of mouth-to-mouth breathing or mechanical ventilation, when performed by paramedics or untrained bystanders. Known as "cardiocerebral resuscitation," or CCR -- that method has tripled survival rates and dramatically decreased brain damage in Arizona adults rescued by paramedics after suffering sudden cardiac arrest." Results on the new CPR were published this month in the Journal of the American Medical Association.