Hands-Only CPR

Bystander CPR used to be the medical equivalent of blowing into a video game cartridge and hoping it’ll work again. Now, after years of painstaking research, our resuscitation strategy is more like hitting a malfunctioning device until it works. In the medical field, we call this “Hands-Only CPR”. Engineers may refer to the same technique as ‘percussive maintenance’, “impact calibration”, or ‘mechanical agitation’.