SUMMARY

Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation is a vital and essential technique in caring for

patients in life and death situations. It may be a simple tool to combat complete loss of
cardiac and respiratory function, but it is still widely utilized in almost all health care
setting. May it be in hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, and even in the emergencies and
calamities. Without CPR most people would have lost their life.

In this research journal article, the authors Rea et. al. have tackled on the
question on which technique is better when doing CPR. Is it with chest compression
alone or with rescue breathings? Even in our setting today, this question also pops up. It
was discussed to us by most of our lecturers that CPR is effective even without rescue
breaths. During those times we had only one source which was the AHA or the
American Heart Association. Until now that I have discovered this article. The
researchers have discussed that it is vital also to instill rescue breathings when doing
CPR but they have suggested that with chest compression alone, better outcomes may
be achieved. This in the context of time. Which is a very essential part of providing
CPR. However, the results showed after doing the experiment on 1941 patients who
met the inclusion criteria, 981 were randomly assigned to receive chest compression
alone and 960 to receive chest compression plus rescue breathing in different health
care setting showed that none showed significant results at all. This means that it
doesn’t matter if health care providers and emergency personnel provided rescue
breathings or not. The effectiveness of cardio-pulmonary resuscitation does not merely
depend on rescue breathings but plenty more things.
REACTION

This journal reading is really vital to my nursing career. Nurses almost in every
areas does this. It is a cardinal technique that is vital to save a patient’s life. I for one
have experienced to do CPR in a real patient in the area. I was filled with excitement
and nervousness during those time. I wasn’t sure if I was doing the right thing at the
right timing. I heard the ribs of the patient crack and that was a very frightening moment.
But I remembered that this is normal in almost all cases of CPR. During those time I
was also not able to provide rescue breaths. Because a respirator was already being
manned by a clinical clerk. Doing CPR as a student nurse was a difficult task. Being a
novice in the field of health care. It was stressful to be confident in doing this procedure.
I knew that it was completely different from the skills laboratory to the actual area.

This research has showed me the different techniques in providing better CPR. It
showed me that CPR was an evolving process that needed to change overtime. But it
still was true to its main concept behind it, which was chest compression is important
and should be steady, fast, and effective.
Journa
l
Readi
ng
on
 Nursing
Procedures
Submitted by:
MARK IANNE S. ANG
WVSU-SN

Submitted to:
MRS. MARY KRISTINE Q. AMBOY, RN, MAN
Clinical Instructor