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Attend this Hands-Only CPR class and be ready to act if you encounter a victim of cardiac arrest.
FPL's What the Health? community education series features experts from a variety of health and medical fields covering topics you want to know more about!
When a person has a cardiac arrest, survival depends on immediately receiving CPR from someone nearby. According to the American Heart Association, about 90 percent of people who suffer out-of-hospital cardiac arrests die. CPR, especially if performed immediately, can double or triple a cardiac arrest victim’s chance of survival. Hands-Only CPR has been shown to be as effective in the first few minutes as conventional CPR for cardiac arrest at home, at work or in public. Hailee Bair from the Washington Regional Medical Center, American Heart Association Training Center will teach us Hands-Only CPR. (Please note that this is a non-certification class.)
