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In a cardiac arrest, hands-only CPR can be the potentially life-saving action before other trained personnel arrive. CPR has two main skills, providing compressions and giving breaths.
On October 28, 2009, the American Heart Association and the Ad Council launched a hands-only CPR public service announcement and website as a means to address this issue. [176] In July 2011, new content was added to the website including a digital app that helps a user learn how to perform hands-only CPR. [177]
It also carried out a campaign in 2012 to educate more people on how to carry out hands-only CPR. [19] [20] [21] The 2012 campaign, which began in New York City, had Jennifer Coolidge as the spokesperson. [22] In 2013, the American Heart Association issued a joint guideline recognizing obesity as a disease and recommending its treatment by ...
Pediatric advanced life support (PALS) is a course offered by the American Heart Association (AHA) for health care providers who take care of children and infants in the emergency room, critical care and intensive care units in the hospital, and out of hospital (emergency medical services (EMS)). The course teaches healthcare providers how to ...
The organization has also named songs by Sabrina Carpenter, Chappell Roan, Beyoncé and Taylor Swift as suitable to follow for hands-only CPR
The American Heart Association currently supports "Hands-only" CPR, which advocates chest compressions without rescue breaths for teens or adults. [39] This is to minimize the reluctance to start CPR due to concern for having to provide mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. [citation needed]