How to save a life with CPR

Life Kit

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🗓️ 26 October 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Every year, more than 350,000 people go into cardiac arrest outside of a hospital setting in the United States. CPR, or cardiopulmonary resuscitation, can help double or triple survival rates. In this episode, we'll explain the basics of this emergency procedure so you can feel empowered to help in a life-or-death situation.

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0:00.0	You're listening to LifeKit from NPR.
0:05.6	Hey everybody, it's MaryL.
0:08.6	Every year, more than 350,000 people go into cardiac arrest
0:13.2	outside of the hospital in the US,
0:15.5	meaning their heart stops beating.
0:17.6	Could be because of a heart attack
0:18.9	or because they choked on something,
0:21.0	there are a lot of causes.
0:22.6	And people without existing heart conditions
0:24.9	can also go into cardiac arrest.
0:27.2	But maybe the more shocking statistic
0:29.5	is this one.
0:30.6	Only about 40% of people who suffer from cardiac arrest
0:34.9	receive CPR from a bystander or late person.
0:39.7	That's Catherine Wybrown, the founder of Learn CPR America.
0:43.9	I have been teaching CPR for over 30 years.
0:47.7	This is three decades of my life.
0:50.4	Catherine's mom was a CPR instructor
0:52.4	with the American Heart Association.
0:54.3	And Catherine went on to open a CPR company
0:56.8	on the south side of Chicago where she's from.
0:59.5	Now at first, nobody signed up.
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