Rath on 20 July 2010
| Tanstalas said: Also, kinda going off topic, this was discussed on the radio I listen to awhile ago, if you WERE trained in first aid and you saw someone on the street unconscious and NOT breathing, and you knew CPR would you give them mouth to mouth if you saw they had sores around their mouth (read:herpes) I wouldn't. And you can call me insensitive or whatever :P |
Actually I'm pretty sure that a lot of current advice on the matter advocates not giving mouth-to-mouth in any case as it makes it less likely to succeed than only doing compressions. Have a read a bit down in the 'compression only CPR' section of the wiki page.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiopulmonary_resuscitation
Also makes it more likely people will perform CPR, so it's win-win =P
