Health News - Compression-only CPR improves survival with good brain function

Health News - Compression-only CPR improves survival with good brain function: " Chest compression-only CPR performed by bystanders — without rescue breathing — keeps more people alive with good brain function after having a sudden cardiac arrest External link, according to a Japanese study reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
Study Highlights:

• A new Japanese study shows that early compression-only CPR, without rescue breathing, kept more people alive with good brain function after they had a sudden cardiac arrest.

• Survival rates of more than 40 percent were noted when cardiac arrests were observed, bystanders provided early compression-only CPR, and an electric shock was given from a publicly accessed defibrillator."