If someone in your household has a cardiac arrest emergency, will you be able to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)? If you can, you’ll triple your loved one’s chance of survival. Of course a cardiac arrest can happen anywhere, but 70 percent of them occur in homes.
During this, National CPR & AED Awareness Week, the American Heart Association (AHA) is urging people to learn how to perform CPR and use an automated external defibrillator (AED). The goal: to double the rate – by 2020 - at which bystanders act in a cardiac arrest emergency. Currently, only about 46 percent of people who experience an out of hospital cardiac arrest receive the immediate help that they need before professional help arrives.