Welcome to Brain staff from house stuff works dot com where smart happens. Hi. I'm Marshall Brain with today's question, what is c CC or continuous chess compressions and how does it compare to CPR. The technique known as CPR, or cardio pulmonary resuscitation, has saved thousands of lives since it was invented and promoted several decades ago. Millions of people have gone through training classes with the Red Cross and other organizations. But CPR is now getting a facelift
and it no longer requires formal training. It's now called c c C or continuous chess compression, and you don't even need to do the mouth to mouth part anymore. You can find videos on YouTube that show you the technique, but here are the basic steps. Step one, you find a person who's collapsed, you should first call Step two roll the person onto his or her back. Step three, put the heel of one hand down on the chest
between the person's nipples. Step four, put the heel of a second hand on top of the first and interlock your fingers. Step five line your shoulders up over your hands and lock your elbows, and then step six push down with the shoulders. That's the compression part of c c C. Step seven release with the hands coming off the chest. What you want is for the chest to rebound a little bit and provide some vacuum, so you're getting both compression and that vacuuming back up so that
you get maximum circulation. And then step eight. Do this a hundred times a minute. That's a pretty good pace. It's about one and a half times every second. The only thing you do in c c C is pump on the chest until professional help arrives. You do it even if a person is gasping. That gasping happens in about half the people who collapse from a heart attack. This chest pumping moves enough oxygen to the brain because
the oxygen is already in the body. Studies have shown that c c C is actually more effective than traditional CPR, even without the rescue breathing, possibly because it's much easier to remember and to administer, just start pumping. For more on this and thousands of other topics, because at HA staff works dot com