Hands-only CPR

In 2012 we worked with Vinnie Jones to help us teach the nation how to do Hands-only CPR: pushing hard and fast on the chest without giving rescue breaths.

Giving rescue breaths helps survival, and our Call Push Rescue training kits teach this skill along with CPR.

But if you don’t want to give rescue breaths, Hands-only CPR is still likely to increase a person’s chance of survival. Never do nothing.

How to do Hands-only CPR

When somebody collapses in front of you, what do you do?

Check the person over. If they are not responsive and not breathing normally, then their heart has stopped working and they are having a cardiac arrest. Now, call 999. Then you do Hands-only CPR. Put one hand on top of the other, interlinking your fingers. Your hand on the bottom should have the fingers open. Lock your fingers together, knuckles up. Then push down, in the middle of the chest right on the sovereign. Push down five or six centimetres. That’s about two inches. Push hard and fast about two times a second, like to the beat of Stayin’ Alive. Don’t worry about hurting someone. A cracked rib can be mended –just concentrate on saving a life. Keep this up until the ambulance arrives.

So don’t forget. Check him over. Call 999. Push hard and fast to Stayin’ Alive. It works.



Hands-only CPR. It’s not as hard as it looks.