Emt Refresher

The national rate of survival after cardiac arrest in the United States is at a loss of 5 percent or less and about 75 percent - 80 percent of sudden cardiac arrests occur at home. Recognizing that too many Americans are not willing to do cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) when necessary, the American Heart Association has created a simple and affordable for people to learn CPR in less than 25 minutes for under $ 30 - CPR Anytime a„c for Family and Friends. Everything needed to complete the CPR training comes in a self-kit, which can be used in the comfort of the living room or family room . A single kit allows an entire family to learn CPR. The kit includes a CPR mannequin-its kind, 22-minute DVD and resource booklet.

The CPR Anytime manikin is an inflatable version of the traditional CPR manikin, designed exclusively for CPR Anytime for Family and Friends by Laerdal Medical Corporation. An instructional DVD walks users at each stage of training, inflating the manikin, doing chest compressions and artificial respiration. Time CPR for family and friends of the program allows users to keep the kit, it can be used in a variety of educational settings - from community group meetings with trainees from several families and individuals at home. The objective of the American Heart Association for every person who receives a kit to take home and share with other family members, increasing the number of potential rescuers. The kit also allows families to refresh their knowledge when they can.

"Many people do not take a CPR course, because they lack the time, afraid of embarrassing themselves in the classroom, or do not think they will ever have to provide CPR," said Ed Stapleton, editor of the American Heart Association for Community products. "CPR Anytime for Family and friends to lift obstacles to traditional training by providing a succinct and useful for learning CPR. With CPR Anytime, millions more people trained can result in thousands more lives saved. "

CPR Anytime for Family and Friends is for people who do not need a map to the end of the course to satisfy a work requirement and who probably would never attend a traditional CPR course.

Mini Anne a„c Presentation

Laerdal Medical, through its strategic alliance with the American Heart Association, worked closely on the development of the CPR Anytime for Family and Friends kit. Specifically, Mini Anne Laerdal created a unique model designed to simulate a human being - the resistance of the chest during a compression of the air quantity required to raise the chest and fall. Users are warned that they pressed the chest hard enough when they hear a click, just like the models more generally used in traditional courses.

Why learn CPR?

Since most cardiac arrests occur at home, CPR Anytime for Family and Friends is the ideal way for families to learn how to save a family member or friend who knows a sudden cardiac arrest. Effective CPR can help make the difference between life and death, buying valuable time and increasing the likelihood that victims can be successfully defibrillated by an electric shock.

Each year, more than 335,000 people across the country die from coronary heart disease before reaching a hospital or emergency room. The majority of these deaths are attributable to sudden cardiac arrest. When the arrest took place outside the hospital setting, most victims die.