That sounds like nonsense and it's certainly not what I've been taught when I've taken advanced first aid courses. It's true that the statistics are not on your

That sounds like nonsense and it's certainly not what I've been taught when I've taken advanced first aid courses. It's true that the statistics are not on your side in that the CPR has only a 1 in 5 chance of being successful and that is if you start immediately after the persons heart stops, but that's no reason not to try it. Recently, an acquaintance of mine was saved by two of his employees who performed CPR on him for 30 mins until the ambulance arrived. He was very lucky to have collapsed in front of them and that they had both been in the army and had good first aid medical. He was hospitalised for 3 weeks and he has memory problems now, but he's out of bed and there for his kids.