Scalers英语晨读第7期 Day 29

原材料引用(Materials)：

This is the VOA Special English Health Report. 

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or CPR, can save the life of someone whose heart has stopped. The condition is called cardiac arrest. The heart stops pumping blood. The person stops breathing. Without lifesaving measures, the brain starts to die within four to six minutes. CPR combines breathing into the victim's mouth and repeated presses on the chest. CPR keeps blood and oxygen flowing to the heart and brain. However, a new Japanese study questions the usefulness of mouth-to-mouth breathing. The study was published in the British medical magazine, The Lancet. Doctors in Tokyo led the research. It examined more than four thousand people who had suffered cardiac arrest. In all the cases, witnesses saw the event happen. More than one thousand of the victims received some kind of medical assistance from witnesses. Seven hundred and twelve received CPR. Four hundred and thirty-nine received chest presses only. No mouth-to-mouth rescue breaths were given to them. The researchers say any kind of CPR improved chances of the patient's survival. But, they said those people treated with only chest presses suffered less brain damage. Twenty-two percent survived with good brain ability. Only ten percent of the victims treated with traditional CPR survived with good brain ability. The American Heart Association changed its guidelines for CPR chest presses in two thousand five. It said people should increase the number of chest presses from fifteen to thirty for every two breaths given.

Gordon Ewy is a heart doctor at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Tucson. He wrote a report that appeared with the study. Doctor Ewy thinks the CPR guidelines should be changed again. He said the heart association should remove rescue breaths from the guidelines.

He argues that more witnesses to cardiac arrests would provide treatment if rescue breaths are not a part of CPR. He says this would save lives. Studies show that many people do not want to perform mouth-to-mouth breathing on a stranger for fear of getting a disease. Cardiac arrest kills more than three hundred thousand people in the United States every year. The American Heart Association says about ninety-five percent of victims die before they get to a medical center.

And that's the VOA Special English Health Report, written by Caty Weaver. I’m Bob Doughty.

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感受与评价（Comments）:

Scalers英语晨读第7期明天就结束了，今天我才发现我这二十几天的标题全都是错的，这也太让人尴尬了，失败。。。不过还是有很大很大的收获的。首先，这二十几天我几乎每天都有认真的朗读英语，死扣音标，这是我以前根本完成不了的事，虽然量不多，但是至少去做了，坚持了下来。然后就是非常的感谢S老师每天早上6点的准时授课了，真的是好厉害，每天都好准时。即使前一天晚上熬夜，第二天也会准时的给我们上课，而我有的时候还躺在床上听课，也有直接关掉直播课的情况。太对不起老师的辛苦了。。。最后一天的作业，朗读全篇文章，读下来后才知道自己还是掌握的不够好，还有很多很多忘记的地方，根本顺不下来，读着读着经常会停下来想想这个音标应该怎么发音，还是没有熟练的掌握。所以晨读课虽然结束了，但是我的英语晨读还远远没有结束，虽然S老师说大部分人还会坚持个那么十几天，之后就没有什么结果了。我还是老老实实的把这十几天熬过去，再说其他的那些豪言壮语吧~我是真的想把这篇文章练的像S老师那样的熟练的，看看我能走到哪一步吧~最后的最后，再次感谢S老师的辛勤教导，谢谢！成长会，读书会继续跟着S老师一起持续行动！

累计练习小时数(Hours)：

27h