Tips on modern CPR techniques to revive heart attack patients

MANDI: The American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI) Charitable Foundation will give tips to the people in the town on techniques of modern CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) to revive patient with sudden heart attack at home or any other place until he can be rushed to a hospital for medical treatment.

Members of The American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin Charitable Foundation present a cheque of Rs 14,34000 towards the CM relief fund in Mandi on Monday. Photo: Jai Kumar

Tribune News Service

Mandi, December 17

The American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI) Charitable Foundation will give tips to the people in the town on techniques of modern CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) to revive patient with sudden heart attack at home or any other place until he can be rushed to a hospital for medical treatment. The venue of the programme is Hotel Raj Mehal in the town.

Chander M Kapasi, chairperson of the AAPI Charitable Foundation, said, “Earlier, in medical science we used conventional CPR to revive the patient in case of heart attack, but now the practice is not followed anymore.”

She said out of hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is a major cause of worldwide deaths. Cardiac arrest may be subdivided into— asphyxia, caused by lack of oxygen (drowning, and chocking) and non-asphyxial, caused by loss of electrical activity of the heart.

“The CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) is a well-established and recognised treatment for cardiac arrest for both in-hospital and out-of-the-hospital cardiac arrests. There is ample statistical evidence of its efficacy in medical literatures” she added.

“Conventional CPR has two components, rescue breathing, such as mouth-to-mouth breathing or with an ambu bag. Rescue breathing is carried out between chest compressions in the conventional CPR. The second and an important component is chest compression. The established ration is two breaths for each 30 chest compressions. The chest compression is critical for survival in patients suffering from cardiac arrest and interrupting chest compression for rescue breathing may increase the risk of death” she remarked.

“The medical science has developed modern technique of chest compression, in which there is no need to give mouth-to-mouth breathing to the patient. This technique is quite effective to revive the patient suffering from heart attack” she added.

She said, “modern CPR can be provided by any person to the patient in the time of need if he or she is aware of the compression technique. We are trying to make people aware of it so that hey can save precious life in time of need.”