Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
CPR
is the artificial method of circulating blood and oxygen through
a body and attempting to keep the brain alive. CPR does work.
When initiated within four minutes, the survival rate is 43 percent.
When initiated within four to eight minutes, the survival rate
is ten percent.
Why Learn CPR?
- One in seven people will have the opportunity to use CPR in
their lifetime.
- More than 650,000 people die annually from heart attack in the
United States each year.
- More than 350,000 die before reaching the hospital.
- When the brain starts to go four to six minutes without oxygen,
brain damage/death begins.
Good Samaritan Act - Article 4 ARS.#32-1471
Health care providers and other
persons administering emergency aid are not liable. Any health care
provider licensed or certified to practice as such in this state
or elsewhere or any other person who renders emergency care at a
public gathering or at a scene of an emergency occurence gratuitously
and in good faith, shall not be liable for any civil or other damages
as the result of any act or omission by which person rendering the
emergency care, or as the result of any act or failure to act to
provide or arrange for further medical treatment or care for the
injured persons, unless such person, while rendering such care,
is guilty of gross negligence.
If you are interested in learning
CPR or more about it contact:
American Heart Association
at 1-800-242-8721, or
The American Red Cross at 970-243-5194

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