Be Ready – Safe A Life
Today, in its flagship peer-reviewed journal, Circulation, the American Heart Association released the Scientific Statement, “American Heart Association (AHA) Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC) 2030 Impact Goals and Call to Action to Improve Cardiac Arrest Outcomes.”This statement makes the case for doubling survivorship to 20%, outlining specific calls to action to improve cardiac arrest outcomes by 2030.
New 10-year goals can be achieved by increasing the rate of bystander CPR to more than 50% and increasing the frequency of defibrillation for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest before emergency services arrive, survival after cardiac arrest whether at home or in the hospital, and neurologically intact survival (surviving with proper brain function).
Currently, 90% of people who experience cardiac arrest outside of a hospital die, in part because they do not receive CPR more than half of the time. To save more lives from the approximately 350,000 cardiac arrests that occur outside of the hospital every year, increasing the number of people who respond to cardiac arrest by calling 911, delivering high-quality CPR and getting and using an AED as soon as it is available are crucial to survival outcomes.
That is why Pecos Valley Public Services offers free CPR and AED training in our community. The life of a loved one may depend on YOUR ability to provide life saving interventions.