Almost 383,000 people who are out of the hospital have sudden cardiac arrests. And that is just annually. How many would there be per day if that is the same amount, and rising every year? Approximately 88% of cardiac arrests happen in the home. In fraction terms, that is about four out of every five people. A lot of cardiac arrest victims just seem like they are healthy and have no known record of any heart disease, or any other heart trouble. When someone is having a cardiac arrest and is given CPR by a bystander upon sight and immediately after the arrest begins, the victim's survival chances can, and will, double, or even triple. As current studies show, though, only 32% of cardiac arrest victims get CPR immediately on sight of heart, or breathing, trouble.
CPR is one of the only ways to keep a person alive until an paramedic or any medical personnel arrives. But did you know that CPR dates all the way back to the 1700s? CPR didn't become something official until the time of the 1900s to the 1950s. It officially began in the 1700s , though, because that's when resuscitation was first taught. It began in Amsterdam because there were nearly 400 accidental drowning's per year because people slipped and fell near the dams. In the Society for Recovery of Drowned Persons, everyone wanted to lessen this loss of life. "In the late 1800s, a doctor named Friedrich Mass is reported to have used and documented the first effective and successful external chest compression technique on a human being." The next huge steps came in the 1950s when two men, named James Elam and Peter Safar, invented the mouth-to-mouth technique. At last, in the late 1960s, the American Heart Association started a training program to teach doctors mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. That's when CPR and mouth-to-mouth resuscitation certification began.
For more information, the following websites have the same, if not more detailed facts: http://www.surefirecpr.com/blog/a-short-history-on-cpr/ http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/CPRAndECC/WhatisCPR/CPRFactsandStats/History-of-CPR_UCM_307549_Article.jsp CPR stands for Cardiopulmonary resuscitation. About 92% of cardiac arrest victims die before getting to the hospital. If more people knew CPR, more lives could be saved. If someone provides CPR immediately, chances of the victim's survival are doubled or even tripled. CPR is useful because it can save someone who's heartbeat and/or breathing has stopped.
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