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February 3, 2023
New Mexico’s Legal & Financial Weekly
Vol. 10.103 No. 5
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American Heart Month, Black History Month
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early 90% of the 350,000 people who experience a cardiac arrest outside of a hospital each year will not survive. Less than half of people who need it will receive the immediate help that they need before professional help arrives. To change these alarming statistics, the American Heart Association, a global force for healthier lives for all, is challenging every household to have at least one person know CPR and Be The Beat for their family, friends, and community during American Heart Month and Black History Month in February. CPR – or cardiopulmonary resuscitation – is an emergency lifesaving procedure performed when the heart stops beating. Since nearly 3 out of 4 cardiac arrests that do not happen in a hospital, occur in the home, if you are called on to give CPR in an emergency, you will most likely be trying to save the life of someone you know or love. Immediate CPR can double or triple chances of survival after cardiac arrest. Keeping the blood flow active – even partially – extends the opportunity for a successful resuscitation once trained medical staff arrive on site.
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of bilingual dispatchers during dispatcher-identified cardiac arrest are also associated with less frequent bystander CPR, as well as delays in both cardiac arrest recognition and implementation o f telecommunicator CPR. Men are more likely to receive bystander CPR in public locations compared to women. Women and men receive similar CPR assistance within the home, but in public 45% of men received assistance compared to only 39% of women. In fact, for men, their chance of survival was 23% higher compared to women. So why the discrepancy? It could come down to anatomy and a bystander being comfortable enough to perform CPR on a woman.
There are two commonly known versions of CPR. Healthcare providers and those who have been trained use conventional CPR using chest compressions and rescue breathing. General public or bystanders who see a teen or adult suddenly collapse at home, at work, or elsewhere, can use compression-only CPR, or Hands-Only CPR, compressions without mouth-to-mouth breaths. The Association still recommends CPR with compressions and breaths for infants and children TAKE THE CPR CHALLENGE and victims of drowning, drug overdose, or people who collapse due to breathing problems. When seconds matter most, CPR can be the difference in whether your “When people learn Hands-Only CPR, they see how simple the technique friends and family survive. But not everyone knows how to perform CPR. is and gain comfort that may help them overcome concerns that previously The American Heart Association is challenging every household or family may have caused them to hesitate - rather than take life-saving action - to learn Hands-Only CPR through just two simple steps, performed in in an emergency,” said American Heart Association volunteer President this order: 1) Call 911 if you see a teen or adult suddenly collapse; and 2) Michelle A. Albert, M.D., M.P.H., FAHA, the Walter A. Haas-Lucie Stern Push hard and fast in the center of the chest to the beat of a familiar song endowed chair in Cardiology, professor of medicine and admissions dean at that has 100 to 120 beats per minute. Some examples are “Stayin’ Alive” University of California-San Francisco School of Medicine. “It is important by the Bee Gees, “Crazy in Love” by Beyoncé featuring Jay-Z, “Hips Don’t to note that Black Americans have the highest incidence of cardiac arrest Lie” by Shakira” or “Walk the Line” by Johnny Cash. The American Heart outside of the hospital and are significantly less likely to survive. Cardiac Association CPR playlist offers numerous selections to help you Be The arrest in Black neighborhoods is associated with alarmingly low treatment Beat. and survival rates and studies have shown lower rates of both bystander CPR and bystander AED use in these neighborhoods. We need to change this trajectory,” You can also watch a 90-second Hands-Only CPR instructional video and share it. Even better, watch it with your friends and family so you all learn 2 Steps to Save a LifeAdditionally, researchers have determined that together. Or, find a nearby class to take a course to learn the lifesaving skills language barriers for non-English 9-1-1 callers and challenges from a lack of CPR, first aid, and AED.