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Letter: On studying first aid behaviour in mice (2)

Published 2 April 2025

From Calliope Irving, Seaford, East Sussex, UK

You quote a researcher saying “the recuperative behaviour isn’t an analogue of CPR… but more like performing basic first aid to ensure an unconscious person can breathe”. As a retired emergency medical technician, I can confirm CPR is, at its core, basic first aid to ensure a person can breathe and therefore the mouse behaviour can be classed as basic intentional CPR.

Issue no. 3537 published 5 April 2025

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