Posted by Bob Trenkamp on 09/16/2011

Consider a few facts:

  • The Phoenix airport has a seventy-five percent survival rate for witnessed cardiac arrests. Last time I checked, Chicago's O'Hare and Atlanta's Hartsfield were around sixty percent. The CARES database reflects a twenty-seven percent average for all airports in participating communities.
  • Twenty-seven percent of the people who had a sudden cardiac arrest in a doctor's office survived...the same percentage as for the average airport.
  • Sixty-six percent of all sudden cardiac arrests happen in the home. Fifteen percent of the survivors in the Survivor Network had their arrests at home.

We know what it takes to make survivors out of sudden cardiac arrest victims:

  • Call for help (911)
  • Perform CPR immediately and without interruption
  • Defibrillate promptly
  • Prompt arrival of ALS Ambulance
  • Definitive care at the hospital

PEOPLE WHO SURVIVE A CARDIAC ARREST GET IMMEDIATE CPR AND PROMPT DEFIBRILLATION. IT'S NOT A GUARANTEE, BUT WITHOUT THOSE TWO ELEMENTS, YOU ARE TOAST!

  • MAKE SURE THAT ALL THOSE AROUND YOU KNOW BYSTANDER CPR.
  • MAKE SURE THAT AN AED IS NO MORE THAN A FEW MINUTES AWAY, WHEREVER YOU ARE.


Please!

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