With less than 10 per cent of people surviving out-of-hospital cardiac arrests nationally, learning CPR could save a life.
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a simple life-saving technique given to someone in cardiac arrest. It aims to take over the job of the heart and lungs by keeping blood and oxygen flowing through the body.
Find out how you can learn CPR through community events and online resources and how you can help us save lives in our communities.
A cardiac arrest is caused by an electrical problem in the heart which then stops pumping blood around the body and brain.
Most out-of-hospital cardiac arrests happen in the home. Learn CPR and one day you might be able to save the life of a loved one.
For anyone trained in CPR, you can sign up to GoodSAM – an app used by ambulance services to alert individuals to nearby cardiac arrests.
The app allows 999 call takers to alert first-aid trained individuals within a 500-metre radius to someone in need so they can begin CPR and/or bring a defibrillator to the scene of an arrest, minimising the time a patient spends without receiving CPR.
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