Hands-Only CPR

Try this website. http://handsonlycpr.org/

I'd take a Red Cross class in person. Online can only teach you so much and if you're trying to learn it from a video, there is no one there to watch you and correct you if you are not pressing in the right place, not pumping hard enough or too hard, not getting the person's body into the correct position, etc. This is vital stuff, so it needs to be learned the right way, and doing it in person on a "CPR dummy" is the best way. The dummies make it tougher on your to pump -- just like it would be with a real person. If you practice on a regular doll or pillow or whatever (I can't picture what anyone would have at home that could possibly approximate the needed difficulty of pumping a person's chest), it's just not going to give you the experience you need to handle a real emergency. It is well worth the money to pay for a Red Cross class. By the way, if you're a parent -- Red Cross can also teach CPR as it's done on infants and children.

Hopefully, in the fall, the new material will be out and you can also take the class on this method from the Red Cross

My Sunday School teacher is a local physician (retired), but he is now also the director of our EMT program. He taught us the new method in SS one class period, explaining that they are getting much better success with this method rather than the older 15 compressions/2 breaths.

The idea behind this is that you want to GET the blood circulating, and KEEP it circulating.... don't worry about doing the breaths, but just keep pumping, at a rate of 100 compressions per minute, I think. Start pumping, and just keep pumping.....

I'm glad there is the online information.... that will help!
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There are many places to learn cpr, but most have to be in person, because the instructor needs to be able to watch you demonstrate the proper way to perform cpr, so I don't know of any online classes. Also, most if not all cpr courses are going to teach you the course with the rescue breathing included. Now from what I'm gathering here, you're looking for hand-only because you are afraid of possibly catching something, or giving something to someone. How that works is that it is truly up to you how you perform the cpr in an emergency situation. If there is a situation in which someone is not breathing and there are no barriers or masks that you can use to protect them or yourself from possibly passing something on, it is acceptable to merely tilt the head back to open the airway and them do the chest compressions. The blood still retains enough oxygen to supply the body for a while as long as it is still able to circulate. As a cpr/ first aid instructor with the Diver's Alert Network (DAN) my recommendation to you would be to take a full cpr class and to just keep the rest of what I said in mind in the case of any emergency. I hope this answer helped, and good luck! :)

My answer is cut off at the end- dumb iphone!: Hands only CPR is ONLY meant for adults that go unresponsive without pulse- studies have shown adults often have rhythm issues and this helps as much as combo breathing/compressions. In infant/children, it is more likely to be respiratory than rhythm related so combo breathing/compressions is best course of action. Why not check with your fire dept to see if they are having a clinic or have a video you can watch....you don't want to watch something on the net that is wrong...but I would check sites for Red Cross or other reputable sites. I have been CPR certified continuously since I passed life saving as a teen. I then worked in an ER and it was required. After I joined first response team at my employer and now do AED training in addition to CPR traij