We had a good thread on the new resuscitation guidelines and compression-only CPR (the "wrong" way) last December here . These people at Arizona are among a handful of communities that are pushing the envelope of traditional resuscitation techniques.

By the way, it seems that the American Heart Association has a new campaign to really ramp up the number of CPR-trained lay people. They have a Family & Friends CPR Anytime training kit that includes a DVD and booklet, plus a small training "dummy" that gives you feedback on whether you're doing compressions forcefully enough by making a clicking sound when you do it correctly. And all this for just $30! You can read more info here. I've been meaning to order one for a while just for the dummy. For those of us who have already been trained, I think just the dummy alone ("Mini Anne") is valuable to help you maintain a bit of "muscle memory" on how hard and deep to push. It's one thing to mentally know how deep to push, it's another to actually practice occasionally for a few minutes and get accustomed to the motion and so that you have more confidence when the time comes to actually do it in real life.

Oh, another recent article in the popular press. AED's are not the end-all and be-all of resuscitation. People still often need CPR even after an AED has worked. Check out the article here .