On 07/20/2018 08:17 AM, NY wrote:
She was surprised when the 999 operator said that modern advice is not
to give mouth-to-mouth and to concentrate solely on heart massage, on
the grounds that studies have shown that the act of heart massage on the
chest allows enough air to be pushed in and out of the lungs to
oxygenate the blood, and that forced mouth-to-mouth breathing is not
necessary if it would distract the first aider from heart massage -
though may be a slight benefit if there's a second person to do it
whenever the first one takes a brief break from the Nelly the Elephant
rhythm of heart massage.

I'm behind the times. My last certification was in 1999 and it was
breathe, pump, pump, breathe and so forth. Then there was the cautionary
advice if working on a kid try not to drive its sternum through its
backbone.

At least dropping the mouth to mouth means you don't have to worry about
AIDS unless you have a bleeder.