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Ahead of World Restart a Heart Day, CPR training is taking place across India
Only 2% of adults in India know how to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation. The American Heart Association - the world's leading voluntary health organization committed to longer, healthier lives for all - and the All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) - a group of autonomous state public medical universities - are working together to train more than 150,000 students, community health workers and others in the public in several states in India to reverse the trend. In the run-up to this “World Restart a Heart Day”, more than 800 people were trained at the first kick-off events at the end of August. These trainers will now...
Ahead of World Restart a Heart Day, CPR training is taking place across India
Only 2% of adults in India know how to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation. The American Heart Association - the world's leading voluntary health organization committed to longer, healthier lives for all - and the All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) - a group of autonomous state public medical universities - are working together to train more than 150,000 students, community health workers and others in the public in several states in India to reverse the trend.
In the run-up to this “World Restart a Heart Day”, more than 800 people were trained at the first kick-off events at the end of August. These trainers will now train community members in Hand-Only CPR in the Bathinda, Bhubaneswar and Mangalagiri regions for the next three years.
Each year on October 16, the American Heart Association recognizes the World Restart a Heart Day initiative, which is supported by all seven constituent councils of the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR), on which the American Heart Association represents the United States. This is a global initiative aimed at raising awareness of the importance of bystander CPR and also increasing actual bystander CPR rates worldwide by educating the public about learning hands-only CPR.
The train-the-trainer model can be easily replicated across India and ensures maximum scalability as each government institute expands its training program.
In a sudden cardiac arrest (SCA), bystander resuscitation can mean the difference between life and death. According to the American Heart Association, immediate CPR can even double or triple a victim's chances of survival.
Sudden cardiac arrest is the abrupt loss of heart function. To maintain blood flow to the organs, immediate, high-quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation is required until advanced treatment is available and the victim is given a shock from an automated external defibrillator (AED) to reset the heart's electrical rhythm.
Cardiac arrests can occur anywhere, at any time, and 88% of all cardiac arrests occur at home. Survival after cardiac arrest largely depends on how quickly resuscitation is started and the quality of resuscitation. For every minute that passes without CPR and defibrillation, a cardiac arrest victim's chance of survival decreases by 7-10 %. With CPR and an AED, the chances of survival triple.
Learning how to perform hand-only cardiopulmonary resuscitation in times of cardiac emergency is the most basic skill to begin the chain of survival. Hands-Only CPR consists of just two simple steps, performed in this order: Call 9-11 if you observe a teenager or adult suddenly collapsing and pressing forcefully and rapidly on the center of the chest to the beat of a well-known song, 100 to 120 beats per minute.
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