This has been in the works for a few years....doing away with the “breaths” during CPR. The chest compressions are well enough to circulate blood and get oxygen to the brain. And, when you breathe into someone during CPR...you put in a lot of CO2 instead of oxygen
First Responder trained....and not having to do the breaths makes CPR much easier....and allows life-saving for those with damage to their pulmonary syatem
My husband actually took part in this type of resuscitation. He was playing basketball with a guy that just dropped on the court and one of the other players started CPR while my husband called 911. The 911 operator told him to tell the guy doing CPR to just do the compressions, my husband instructed the guy doing CPR on what to do via the 911 operator.
This happened almost 2 years ago. The guy’s fine today because of it.