Monday, February 23, 2015

How CPR AED First Aid Classes Can Help Save Lives

By Olivia Cross


With about 92 percent of victims who suffer from cardiac arrest not making it to hospitals alive, it means that if more people trained on how to provide cardiopulmonary resuscitation, many lives could still be saved. Taking CPR AED first aid classes can assist in saving lives that are lost when victims of cardiac arrest to not receive immediate attention. However, despite CPR being used since the 1740s, not many people actually know how to do it correctly.

If resuscitation is provided the right way and immediately after a cardiac arrest, it could help in saving many lives that are actually lost. Anyone should be able to perform this process, and the only way to do it is by first learning the technique. It is a pretty simple technique that anyone can perform.

Many a times, when cardiac arrests occur, the victims have very little time to survive. It is those first minutes that can determine if one will survive or die. If the victim gets the resuscitation at that moment, it can help save his or her life. But this is not possible if there is no one around who has taken the course.

A significant number of lives can be saved if more people consider taking the right training in cardiopulmonary resuscitation. People need to train on resuscitation so that they can manage helping people who get sudden circulatory arrest. While training in cardiopulmonary resuscitation has been there for a long time, people have not taken the initiative to take the course.

Employers are today seeking for people with life saving skill because they can help in adding value to the workforce. If you have trained in this course, you are more likely to be picked from a pool of job applicants. But this should not be the motivation of taking the cardiopulmonary course.

You may be picked as the right candidate for a job just because you have that extra life saving skill. Moreover, cardiopulmonary resuscitation training should be taken with the aim of saving life. If you only train to make your CV look good, then it may not help you. There is no need of having the training yet when you are faced with a situation that needs one to resuscitate, you cannot be able to do it.

It is estimated that medical emergency team, takes about 8 to 12 minutes but while this timeframe is very short and a quick one, it may not be sufficient to keep one alive. By the time the medics arrive, it is too late to save a life. When resuscitation procedures such as mouth-to-mouth and chest compressions are done properly, they can help the victims. There are also machines, which are used to trigger electric shock that can induce heart rhythm. The defibrillators should be used properly.

Automated external defibrillator or AED can be used to deliver electrical shocks or defibrillations that could help re-establish the rhythm of the heart. When AED devices are combined with manual ways of doing resuscitation, they could help in saving lives of victims who have suffered pulmonary arrest. In essence, if the heart does not beat, you could help in maintaining circulation through a number of ways such as chest compressions, use of AED device, or mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.




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