CPR without rescue breathing better for cardiac arrest patients: "The standard or recommended CPR includes 30 chest compressions and two mouth-to- mouth breaths. Chest compression requires pressing the patient's chest down at least one and a half inches within less than one second before releasing.
Often times, bystanders would not want to do CPR on strangers because they are reluctant to do rescue breaths. Even if they do, they may skip rescue resuscitation because of fears that they could get a contagious disease from the victim.
But the new study indicates that people don't have to feel guilty if they do not provide mouth-to-mouth resuscitation because if they do, they might even hurt the patient."
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