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The 2005 CPR guidelines from AHA are closer to, but don’t mimic exactly, the cardiocerebral resuscitation guidelines developed by the University of Arizona.  I’d like to think that the AHA didn’t totally revamp CPR because the science behind the CCR guidelines was fairly new, not because the AHA hates making total changes, but the science might be getting stronger every day.

Case in point:  a study published recently that showed more than double the survival in a CCR group compared to a CPR group.  Importantly, this wasn’t just survival to hospital admission:  it was survival to neurologically intact (more or less) discharge as well–something that’s rarely measured.

The downfall of this study:  the statistics.  I looked at their numbers, and can’t actually determine whether their numbers reached statistical significance.  I thought it might be me, but my wife is in a statistics class now (mine was 10 years ago) and she can’t make heads or tails of their numbers either.  It makes me wonder if their good statistics got lost in the editing process.