Health & Medicine
Bystander CPR Helps Prevent Cardiac Arrest
Kathleen Lees
First Posted: Oct 02, 2013 12:53 PM EDT
Thanks to the launch of a national effort via Denmark in 2005, residents who suffer from cardiac arrest are three times more likely to survive than they were a decade ago.
A recent study notes that the country pushed for educational programs regarding cardiopulmonary resuscitation in order to save more people suffering from cardiac arrest outside hospital rooms. In fact, the country gave out close to 150,000 instructional kits so that children could actually begin learning CPR as early as elementary school, according to the Associated Press.
Background information from the study notes that close to 300,000 people in North America suffer from cardiac arrest each year, and in many cases, this is not in the confines of a hospital where more medical attention can be alerted to the situation.
The study shows that in Denmark, the number of cardiac arrest victims that received "bystander" CPR more than doubled from someone other than a health professional throughout the last decade. On the same note, the percentage of victims who arrived at the hospital alive also increased from 8 to 22 percent.
Michael Sayre, a professor of emergency medicine at the University of Washington and a spokesman for the American Heart Association, notes the impressiveness of these findings, via USA Today.
He says that despite the fact that other countries show similar results with the implementation of such programs, the community effort that involved the entire country shows promising results for the future and the use of other programs such as this one.
The heart association now requires a handful of states to provide students with a CPR class before even graduating high school in the event that they could help out in a health situation that required the process.
Also known as cardiopulmonary resuscitation, this lifesaving technique can be useful in many emergencies--ranging from saving someone from a heart attack or drowning if breathing or heartbeat has stopped.
More information regarding the study can be found via the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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First Posted: Oct 02, 2013 12:53 PM EDT
Thanks to the launch of a national effort via Denmark in 2005, residents who suffer from cardiac arrest are three times more likely to survive than they were a decade ago.
A recent study notes that the country pushed for educational programs regarding cardiopulmonary resuscitation in order to save more people suffering from cardiac arrest outside hospital rooms. In fact, the country gave out close to 150,000 instructional kits so that children could actually begin learning CPR as early as elementary school, according to the Associated Press.
Background information from the study notes that close to 300,000 people in North America suffer from cardiac arrest each year, and in many cases, this is not in the confines of a hospital where more medical attention can be alerted to the situation.
The study shows that in Denmark, the number of cardiac arrest victims that received "bystander" CPR more than doubled from someone other than a health professional throughout the last decade. On the same note, the percentage of victims who arrived at the hospital alive also increased from 8 to 22 percent.
Michael Sayre, a professor of emergency medicine at the University of Washington and a spokesman for the American Heart Association, notes the impressiveness of these findings, via USA Today.
He says that despite the fact that other countries show similar results with the implementation of such programs, the community effort that involved the entire country shows promising results for the future and the use of other programs such as this one.
The heart association now requires a handful of states to provide students with a CPR class before even graduating high school in the event that they could help out in a health situation that required the process.
Also known as cardiopulmonary resuscitation, this lifesaving technique can be useful in many emergencies--ranging from saving someone from a heart attack or drowning if breathing or heartbeat has stopped.
More information regarding the study can be found via the Journal of the American Medical Association.
See Now: NASA's Juno Spacecraft's Rendezvous With Jupiter's Mammoth Cyclone