Letter by Arrich et al Regarding Article, “Bystander-Initiated Rescue Breathing for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrests of Noncardiac Origin”

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To The Editor: With interest we have read the article by Kitamura and colleagues about bystander initiated rescue breathing for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest of noncardiac origin.1 The authors included a large number of patients from a population based registry and concluded that rescue breathing has an incremental benefit for out-of-hospital cardiac arrests of noncardiac origin. We would like to discuss some aspects of the study design: The main question was a comparison between compression-only CPR to conventional CPR including …