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Heart beat: Hands-only CPR
Updated recommendations make cardiopulmonary resuscitation easier to learn and to do: Press hard. Press fast. Don't stop.
Without warning, a family member or friend collapses, twitches and gasps a few times, then lies deathly still. What do you do?
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