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2. Basic life support - Wikipedia

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   The American Heart Association highlights the most important steps of BLS in a "five-link chain of survival." [ 11 ] The chain of survival includes early recognition of an ongoing emergency, early initiation of CPR by a bystander, early use of a defibrillator, and early advanced life support once more qualified medical help arrives.

3. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation - Wikipedia

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   The American Heart Association (AHA) and other resuscitation bodies [173] do not endorse "cough CPR", which it terms a misnomer as it is not a form of resuscitation. The AHA does recognize a limited legitimate use of the coughing technique: "This coughing technique to maintain blood flow during brief arrhythmias has been useful in the hospital ...

4. American Heart Association - Wikipedia

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   The American Heart Association (AHA) is a nonprofit organization in the United States that funds cardiovascular medical research, educates consumers on healthy living and fosters appropriate cardiac care in an effort to reduce disability and deaths caused by cardiovascular disease and stroke.

5. Know heart attack signs, how to perform hands-only CPR in ...

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   CPR has two main skills, providing compressions and giving breaths. Hands-only CPR starts to circulate the already oxygenated blood throughout the system and can be the bridge from death back to life.

6. International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation - Wikipedia

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   The name was chosen in 1996 to be a deliberate play on words relating to the treatment of sick hearts – "ill cor" (cor is Latin for heart). ILCOR is composed of the American Heart Association (AHA), the European Resuscitation Council (ERC), the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada (HSFC), the Australian and New Zealand Committee on ...

7. ABC (medicine) - Wikipedia

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   The ABC system for CPR training was later adopted by the American Heart Association, which promulgated standards for CPR in 1973. As of 2010, the American Heart Association chose to focus CPR on reducing interruptions to compressions, and has changed the order in its guidelines to Circulation, Airway, Breathing (CAB). [48]