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Found an interesting article on this:
The Kiss of Life - A utility worker giving mouth-to-mouth to co-worker after he contacted a low voltage wire, 1967 - Rare Historical Photos
This photo called "The Kiss of Life" shows a worker named giving mouth-to-mouth to co-worker after he contacted a Low Voltage line and went unconscious.rarehistoricalphotos.com
Notice it says "low voltage" in the article.
Great article.
The last two paragraphs are curious:
"Today mouth-to-mouth resuscitation is unnecessary and American Heart Association (AHA) doesn’t recommend using it anymore. One of the big factors in the AHA’s decision to lessen the importance of ventilation in the newest resuscitation guidelines was to make it easier and more likely for bystanders to actually perform CPR.
The studies showed that many people would not perform CPR on a stranger because of the mouth-to-mouth part. By reducing the importance, they hope that more people will perform chest compressions, which by themselves can be very effective."
Aside from being ashamed of humans who wouldn't risk disease in order to save a life by oral contact, I remember hearing a doctor interviewed yesterday. He was commenting on the Chilean flight where the pilot died of a heart attack. The doc said all CPR does is bridge life until a defibrillator can be applied. That's dramatic, but I have a hunch it's an exaggeration.
It ignores cases like a stunning or a drowning or other types of anoxia where the breathing is vital to prevent brain death. And, the heart is able to restart if the rthythm is kept up until the body recovers enough and the heart restarts.
I think the doc must have only been describing a very narrow group of heart attack victims. By no means are all heart attack patients given electric shock when they get to the ER if they survived their heart attack.