In early April, the American Heart Association announced that it had changed its guidelines to recommend that bystanders who witness a cardiac arrest should, in most cases, perform "hands only" CPR and need not attempt mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
The change followed years of lobbying from some heart specialists who had long believed that hands-only CPR -- i.e. rapid chest compressions intended to achieve at least minimal blood flow in victims -- was as good as or better than compressions combined with mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, the previously recommended method that has become well-known to the general public.
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