Do you know CPR?

[concise]

If not, why not?

Widespread CPR Training Could Boost Heart Attack Survival Rates - Yahoo! News

Training more people to perform CPR would significantly improve heart attack survival rates, according to a new study in Denmark, where CPR training is widespread.

Researchers analyzed 29,000 cardiac arrests that occurred over the course of a decade and found the proportion of cases involving bystander CPR more than doubled from 20 percent in 2001 to 44 percent in 2010.

CPR for heart attacks: Skip breath, go to chest 1st - SFGate

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation should begin with forceful chest compressions to keep the blood circulating through the body, according to new guidelines released today by the American Heart Association. And people who haven't been trained in CPR need not bother with providing air-passage clearance and mouth-to-mouth breathing at all, the group said.

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Several large studies in the past five years, however, have found that skipping the first two steps and going straight to chest compressions yields better survival rates for people who suffer cardiac arrest. Meanwhile, by discouraging the average citizen from giving mouth-to-mouth emergency treatment, public health experts hope that more people will be willing to provide CPR to strangers.

Dispatchers' CPR Coaching Saves Lives When Every Minute Counts : Shots - Health News : NPR
Why are the odds of surviving a heart attack better in the NW? | I Wonder Why ... ? from KPLU



Basic point,

knowledge of heart attacks has increased, yet survival rates are basically the same. Improving the knowledge of the general public and assuaging their fears would increase survival rates since time is a very important factor.

 

[skeetsinternal]

CPR is messing with God's will. If a nikka dying then he was ment to die why should I interfere

 

[Ain't That Something]

yes! Been qualified since I was 16!

 

[SuburbanPimp]

Yes sir... Everybody should be

I would hate for any of my fam or friends to have a heart attack or something and everybody just standing around not knowing what to do.

 

[beenz]

I have worked in health care the past 8 years and I never learned it.

 

[concise]

I have worked in health care the past 8 years and I never learned it.

 

[beenz]

I know right????

 

[BOX ALARM]

Yep...But odds are, the person will still die. People being resuscitated are extremely low. I'm about 1/12 for saving people. But I will say, the 1 person that survived was working out in a gym and bystanders started CPR immediately. So it is a good thing to know.

 

[jerniebert]

Yeah they made us take a CPR class when I was in Culinary School.

 

[Sandy_Cheeks]

Yep. I got certified through my employer.

 

[concise]

I know right????

if you ask me, everyone working in a hospital or clinic should know CPR. Even the chefs in the kitchen.

 

[Grifter]

I have worked in health care the past 8 years and I never learned it.

my mom is just learning it after being an RN for 17 years.

 

[concise]

my mom is just learning it after being an RN for 17 years.

yooooooooo


@RandomRN86

 

[Coco Loco]

Yep. I got certified through my employer.

This.

 

[concise]

@RandomRN86




I was looking forward to your thoughts on that quote.