{"id":35064,"date":"2015-05-24T07:00:08","date_gmt":"2015-05-24T17:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=35064"},"modified":"2021-08-31T12:29:02","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T22:29:02","slug":"inaba-is-keeping-the-beat-for-hands-only-cpr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2015\/05\/24\/inaba-is-keeping-the-beat-for-hands-only-cpr\/","title":{"rendered":"Inaba is keeping the beat for hands-only <abbr title=\"Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation\">CPR<\/abbr>"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_99347\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-99347\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/manoa-jabsom-inaba-alson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"350\" class=\"size-full wp-image-99347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/manoa-jabsom-inaba-alson.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/manoa-jabsom-inaba-alson-93x130.jpg 93w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/manoa-jabsom-inaba-alson-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-99347\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alson Inaba (Photo credit: American Heart Association)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M&#257;noa <a href=\"http:\/\/jabsom.hawaii.edu\/\">John A. Burns School of Medicine<\/a> Professor <strong>Alson Inaba<\/strong> is helping the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heart.org\/HEARTORG\/\">American Heart Association<\/a> once again in its push to save lives through &ldquo;Hands-Only <abbr>CPR<\/abbr>.&rdquo; The campaign promotes awareness of <abbr>CPR<\/abbr> without mouth-to-mouth breaths.<\/p>\n<p>Inaba came up with the idea to use the Bee Gees classic, <em>Stayin&#8217; Alive<\/em> as a mathematically perfect and unforgettable way to keep rhythm with the necessary compressions needed to properly perform hands-only <abbr>CPR<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><abbr>ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½<\/abbr> News<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2012\/06\/06\/medical-professor-promoting-stayin-alive-cpr\/\"><em>Medical professor promoting Stayin&#8217; Alive <abbr>CPR<\/abbr><\/em>,<\/a> June 6, 2012<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hands-only <abbr>CPR<\/abbr> is recommended for people who need to aid a teen or adult who has suddenly collapsed in an out-of-hospital setting.<\/p>\n<h2>Inaba is the face of the American Heart Association campaign<\/h2>\n<p>This year, the heart association launched another Hands-Only <abbr>CPR<\/abbr> promo video using a singing group, in acapella fashion, and quoting Inaba, who works at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaiipacifichealth.org\/kapiolani\/\"><span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> Medical Center<\/a>, in its news releases for National <abbr>CPR<\/abbr> Week.<\/p>\n<p>Inaba has been the national face of the <abbr>AHA<\/abbr> campaign in years past along with movie celebrities and dancers clad in white suits, a la John Travolta from the movie <em>Stayin&#8217; Alive<\/em>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.everydayhealth.com\/\">Everyday Health<\/a> called Inaba&#8217;s innovation &ldquo;The Tip from Honolulu Heard Around the World.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Anyone can learn hands-only <abbr>CPR<\/abbr> with just two easy steps,&rdquo; said Inaba. &ldquo;If you see someone suddenly collapse, first call 911 and then push hard and fast in the center of their chest to the beat of <em>Stayin&#8217; Alive<\/em> until help arrives.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Tina Shelton<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>JABSOM<\/abbr> Alson Inaba partners once again with the American Heart Association to help the public keep the beat for hands-only <abbr>CPR<\/abbr><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[31,9],"class_list":["post-35064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-john-a-burns-school-of-medicine","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35064"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147269,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35064\/revisions\/147269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}