Why we all need CRP

[treydawgmt]

Originally Posted by Publius

When EMTs learn baseball rules, I'm on board.

Until then, I'll do my job and they can do theirs.

I'm a Firefighter/Paramedic AND I'd like to think I know (most) baseball rules. (Always learning something new...)

New science puts a LOT of stock in compressions. This is because studies have shown one of the most important things in cardiac resuscitation is "Coronary Perfusion Pressure," or a measure of the pressure in the arteries of the heart. If you don't have good CPP, you rarely have saves of patients. Stopping for even 20 seconds PLUMMETS the CPP, so even Paramedics now do 30 compressions to 2 breaths, or 2 minutes of compressions if they are intubated.

The science has changed, and do lots and lots of hard and fast compressions.