3.16.2007

Get Right To the Compressions

GEORGE BUSH the elder received one from a golfing buddy. Pierce Brosnan as James Bond laid one on Halle Berry in Die Another Day.

Now the famous kiss of life - a mainstay of resuscitation for 50 years - should be allowed to slip back into history, a large Japanese study suggests. It shows people who collapsed suddenly with cardiac arrest had a 50 per cent higher chance of surviving if someone gave them heart massage alone rather than alternating it with breathing into their lungs.

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