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Stayin Alive with CPR teach Friday
Published 3:17 PDT, Fri June 1, 2018
Ever wanted to save a life? Here’s your
chance to be ready.
A host of British Columbia’s health
organizations have banded together to offer free group lessons in CPR and the
use of automatic debrillators. The great BC CPR teach-in happens in 40
communities across the province today (June 1).
According to Provincial Health Services
Authority and BC Emergency Health Services, “By-stander CPR is critical during
a sudden cardiac arrest, but it is only performed 25 per cent of the time. By
training more people to know what to do when sudden cardiac arrest occurs, we
can improve this rate and potentially save lives.”
Richmond residents join the rest of Metro Vancouver
at Robson Square. The classes are hourly from 11 a.m. The last one starts at 6
p.m.
It’s a chance to learn, to laugh and prepare
to save a life with 100 of your new closest friends.
New studies show that doing CPR, formally
known as cardio pulmonary resuscitation, gives heart attack patients a chance
of survival and survival with the brain intact. Without oxygen, the brain
starts to die within minutes.
CPR pumps blood to the brain, keeping this
vital organ alive when the heart has stopped. An automatic defibrillator offers
audio, print and graphic instructions in how to use it to shock a heart back
into effective pumping, but the classes being offered will let people become
familiar with the equipment at a calm time, when a life isn’t on the line.
“After receiving training, participants can
download a new BCEHS app called PulsePoint. The PulsePoint Respond App alerts
you if there is a possible victim of sudden cardiac arrest within 400 metres of
your location anywhere in BC. If there is a public access defibrillator nearby,
the app will tell you where it is. Once you receive the alert and find the
patient, you can perform hands-only CPR, and use the (defibrillator) if
available, until professional responders arrive,” says Provincial Health
Services Authority and BC Emergency Health Services.
The Metro Vancouver CPR teach-in will be at
the Robson Square lower level ice rink, 800 Robson St. That’s the north
entrance beside the Vancouver Art Gallery.
Click here for more information.
The preregistration for this event is full
but there are still drop-in spots available. Just show up early to ensure your
spot.
The mass CPR lessons are organized by BC
Emergency Health Services (BCEHS) paramedics, in partnership with the Ambulance
Paramedics of BC CUPE 873, Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada and St. John's
Ambulance.
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