If you’re giving mouth to mouth then you are doing CPR wrong under current guidelines.
Like so many current federally issued “guide lines”?
I learnd in the Boy Scouts begining during IKE’s last year in office, when, what and how to do CPR. Then many rimes more in 20+ years in the Army plus all the way up to the end of 2011 when I left Scouts.
The key being “under current guidelines”. The unofficial opinion of the various Red Cross instructors I’ve certified with has pretty much unanimously been that the guidelines change frequently for the purpose of making everyone re-certify so the RC can collect more fees.
The “two breaths” part of the CPR cycle was dropped (apart from the above) mostly because it was harder for amateurs to include in the process. It’s easier in a panic situation to just keep pumping, rather than having to remember 15 compressions/2 breaths. During my last certification (admittedly years ago) the two breaths were included not only for the additional air you’re putting in the victim’s lungs, but also so you have a chance to listen for the vic to start breathing on their own, and to check for a pulse.
That isn’t the point of this - it is about insane, stupid, ridiculous laws (typical for government) being overturned by a handful of people with some common sense.
As to your reply - that’s all well-and-good for those who just recently went through training/certification. But for those of us who haven’t been through such training in decades - we just do what we were taught back then (and it does work). I guess we who have not been recently trained should just let someone die...