On another note, the trainer that did the CPR class I attended last said that he felt that rescue breaths should be relatively slow (i.e. the rescuer exhales more gently). It made some sense at the time (less chance of pushing lots of air into the stomach and having to deal with vomit for example), but I've been wondering about it and I'm especially questioning it in light of the article you posted in that giving more gentle rescue breaths took longer as this fellow was teaching it while I got the impression from the article that interupting compressions for longer than neccesary is bad.
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