lil
e-mergencista experimentado
Estuve leyendo un articulo de la web del heimlich institute que me ha dejado un poco confusa
en cuanto a las recomendaciones que hacen frente a ahogados, astmaticos, PCR... Que opinais?
https://www.heimlichinstitute.org/correcting.htm
(El articulo esta en Ingles, alguno de los moderadores lo podría traducir no tengo traductor)

https://www.heimlichinstitute.org/correcting.htm
(El articulo esta en Ingles, alguno de los moderadores lo podría traducir no tengo traductor)
^Correcting Medical Mistakes That Cause Thousands of Needless Deaths
Today, it has been proven that thousands of people, many of them children, are dying needlessly from asthma attacks, heart attacks and drowning. Recent changes in lifesaving methods are being taught to relatively small groups by first aid organizations. Until the word is spread to the entire public, these unwarranted deaths will continue.
ASTHMA
Every year, more than 5000 Americans, many of them children, die during asthma attacks. In 1995, Hillary, a four-year-old child, diagnosed with asthma, suffered a severe asthma attack. Her mother applied the Heimlich maneuver and, within a minute, the child was able to breathe normally. The Heimlich Institute has received other reports of the Maneuver stopping asthma attacks.
As described by the National Institutes of Health, asthma attacks constrict breathing tubes (bronchi), which are then blocked by mucous plugs. The victim can breathe in, but cannot breathe out. Trapped air distends the lungs. Victims then die because they can neither breathe in or out. They also cannot inhale medication.
A Heimlich maneuver, performed gently on one's self, or by a bystander, presses the diaphragm upward, diminishing the volume of the chest cavity, which compresses the lungs, expelling trapped air. This air flow may carry away mucous plugs and enable the asthma victim to resume normal breathing. Additionally, use of the Maneuver once or twice a week to expel mucus from the lungs in order to prevent asthma attacks is being studied. Those using the Heimlich maneuver for asthma should do so under a physician's care and be properly trained in use of the Maneuver.
HEART ATTACKS
CPR (CardioPulmonary Resuscitation) consists of mouth-to-mouth and pressing on the chest. Mouth-to-mouth is a complex procedure. For almost thirty years the American Heart Association has been teaching the public to perform CPR for heart attack victims. Throughout those decades, no study was done to determine whether CPR was saving lives or causing deaths.
On May 25, 2000, a 7-year study by the University of Washington, in Seattle, was reported in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine and by the Associated Press. The study found that 911-operator instructions for using mouth-to-mouth for heart attacks increases the number of deaths. Only 10% of those given mouth-to-mouth and chest compressions, survived to discharge from the hospital. Nearly 15% receiving chest compressions alone recovered and were discharged from the hospital.
Two months after the Seattle study appeared, the American Heart Association (AHA) Guidelines 2000, published in its journal, Circulation, instructed emergency telephone operators to omit teaching mouth-to-mouth for heart attack victims. 911 operators are instructed to teach callers, faced with a heart attack victim, to use only chest compressions. In addition, AHA instructions no longer require rescuers to use mouth-to-mouth for heart attacks. In fact, they warn that mouth-to-mouth blows air into the stomach, not into the lungs, and this causes vomiting with aspiration of vomit. The AHA also states that the exchange of saliva with mouth-to-mouth has caused tuberculosis, herpes, and meningitis, and there is fear of spreading AIDS and hepatitis.
DROWNING
Most drowning victims die because their lungs fill with water, blocking the airway. They choke to death on water. For four decades the American Red Cross taught rescuers to use CPR -- blow air into a drowning victim's mouth. No study ever showed that doing mouth-to-mouth without first removing the water from the lungs saved drowning victims.
A 1982 University of Pittsburgh study experimentally proved four Heimlich maneuvers clear the water from the lungs, enabling air to get into the lungs and allow victims to breathe.3 Four Heimlichs take ten seconds to perform and anyone can do them. The Red Cross adopted the Heimlich maneuver for drowning victims in their 1995 manual First Aid Fast. In a five-year study, conducted 1995-2000, 32,000 lifeguards were trained to use the Heimlich maneuver as the first step to resuscitate unconscious, non-breathing drowning victims. 97% of the victims survived with full recovery. University studies, using CPR, reported 50%-60% of such drowning victims died.
Lifeguards are taught to use the Heimlich maneuver to clear the lungs of water. Every year, however, more than 1,000 children die of drowning at home - in toilets, bath tubs, pails of water, and pools. In 18 states, drowning is the leading cause of accidental death for children under five years old. First to respond in the home is a parent or babysitter, many of whom attempt to use only CPR. Media articles frequently report CPR was used by rescuers before children died of drowning.
Many of the 284 million Americans know the Heimlich maneuver. Reports of 911 operators successfully instructing callers how to perform to the Maneuver to save choking victims show that it is easily taught. The public must learn: To save drowning victims, perform the same Heimlich maneuver you would for a choking victim. Use the lying down (supine) position for adult victims. Repeat until water no longer flows from the mouth. Proceed with CPR if warranted.