The letters are being scrambled so that "C" — chest compressions — will now come first if there’s only one rescuer.
That’s before "A" — checking the victim’s airway, and "B" — for breathing.
The Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada is updating its guidelines today for the first time in five years.
The guidelines say calling 9-1-1 and quickly providing compressions can mean the difference between life and death.
The changes take into account research on the benefits of chest compressions and the reluctance of some bystanders to do mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
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