Most online CPR videos don’t match guidelines: study

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Most online CPR videos don’t match guidelines: study

By Kathryn Doyle NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Only a few of the instructional videos about cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on YouTube provide accurate advice on how to perform basic life support, according to a team of Turkish emergency medicine specialists. Once a video is up on YouTube, it stays up unless it contravenes site policy or the owner takes it down, so it’s not surprising that many lower quality videos are available to watch, said Carol Haigh, a professor of nursing at Manchester Metropolitan University in the UK, who wasn’t part of the study. Researchers from university and state hospitals across Turkey reviewed 209 videos on cardiopulmonary resuscitation or basic life support that were recorded in English, without advertisements, and uploaded to YouTube between 2011 and 2013. Only 24 of the videos, 11.5 percent, were completely compatible with 2010 CPR guidelines from the American Heart Association (AHA), according to the results published in Emergency Medicine Australasia.

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