Nearly 383,000 people have cardiac arrest outside of a hospital every year, and only 11% survive, most likely because they don’t receive timely CPR. Given right away, CPR doubles or triples survival rates. Teaching students CPR could save thousands of lives by filling our community with lifesavers- those trained to give sudden cardiac arrest victims the immediate help they need to survive until EMT’s arrive. Sudden cardiac arrest can happen any place, at any time. If you suffer sudden cardiac arrest, your best chance at survival is receiving bystander CPR. But most do not.
Fortunately, Connecticut is one of thirty-four states that requires CPR training to be part of the public school curriculum. Thanks to passionate advocates like yourself the CT legislature passed this law in 2015 and school districts state-wide are now gearing up to meet the July 1, 2016 requirement. Teaching students CPR before they graduate will put thousands of qualified lifesavers on our streets and into our neighborhoods every year!
As part of national CPR and AED Awareness Week (June 1-7), Dr. Ed Cronin, who is an attending electrophysiologist at Hartford Hospital, an assistant professor of medicine at UCONN, and a member of the Connecticut and Western Massachusetts American Heart Association Board of Directors was interviewed by WTIC. To listen to the short interview click here and scroll down: http://connecticut.cbslocal.com/audio/mornings-with-ray-dunaway/
Awareness of CPR may only be celebrated one week out of the year, but for students who learn how to perform CPR, it is a skill that will last a lifetime, and maybe save a life as well!
To learn more about emergency cardiovascular care, click here: www.cpr.heart.org/!
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