CPR FAQs
- Heart disease is the leading killer of Americans
- Find out more about Hands only CPR
- More women die from heart disease than men!
- Learn more. Visit: www.goredforwomen.org
- About 80 percent of all out-of-hospital cardiac arrests happen at home
- Learning to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) can mean the difference between life and death for a loved one
- Effective bystander CPR, can double a victim’s chance of survival
- Death from sudden cardiac arrest is not inevitable. If more people knew CPR, more lives could be saved
- Brain death starts to occur four to six minutes after someone experiences cardiac arrest if no CPR and defibrillation occurs during that time If bystander CPR is not provided, a sudden cardiac arrest victim’s chances of survival fall 7 percent to 10 percent for every minute of delay until defibrillation
- Coronary heart disease accounts for about 450,000 adults who die each year as a result of cardiovascular disease. Learn more.
- Visit www.americanheart.org
- Sudden cardiac arrest is most often caused by an abnormal heart rhythm called ventricular fibrillation (VF)
- When sudden cardiac arrest occurs, the victim collapses, becomes unresponsive to gentle shaking, stops normal breathing and after two rescue breaths, still isn’t breathing normally, coughing or moving....