Cardiologists Also Oppose Artificial Breath Through the Mouth

Jakarta, given artificial breathing from mouth to mouth like a man kissing more and more contested. The cardiologist also do not recommend because the procedure is also referred to as the kiss of life that sometimes even harm the heart.

According to the doctors who are members of the British Heart Foundation, the most important part in the Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) or first aid on a heart attack is chest compression. Artificial breathing should be undertaken only by people who actually trained.

In many cases that occurred during this time, artificial breathing makes people forget to perform chest compression with a constant and regular rhythm so the heart patient is not even helped. Not to mention if given artificial breathing at the wrong time, the patient can even choke.

In the latest guidelines, the British Heart Foundation recommends that rescuers focus on chest compressions are delivered quickly and constantly as much as 100-120 times in 1 minute. As a rule, more or less the same rhythm as the old song from the Bee Gees Staying Alive titled.

Compression or pressure in chest made ​​as deep as 5-6 cm, with a pressure point right in between both nipples. This procedure can be performed continuously during cardiac patients have not worked, while waiting for an ambulance or medical help arrived on the scene.

"If it were not trained to perform artificial breathing through the mouth, do CPR with chest komptesi. It could save someone's life who had a heart attack," says Ellen Mason of the British Heart Foundation, as quoted from Dailymail, Friday (01/06/2012).

Actually, though not banned, most people are afraid to give artificial breathing. Based on a survey of 2,000 people in Britain, 20 percent are reluctant to do so for fear of contracting an infection while 40 percent feared prosecuted if an error occurs while giving artificial breathing.