This is a special time of year in which we get to focus on expressing gratitude. We want to thank Health eHeart participants, like you, who continue to support and contribute to our research. Our work would not be as meaningful if it were not for the insights you help to provide in our mission to better prevent, predict, and treat heart disease.
We want to wish you a happy and safe holiday season to you and yours.
Best wishes,
The Health eHeart Team
CPR Awareness
The holidays are a time for families to celebrate and come together. However, it is also the time when hospitals report increases in the number of accidents and injuries. This month we want to share information with you on the life-saving impact CPR can have.
Why is CPR so important?
Every year, more than 350,000 cardiac arrests occur outside a hospital in the US, with survival rates of less than 12 percent. CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) is an important, life-saving skill and, if performed immediately, can double or triple a cardiac arrest victim's chance of survival.
What is cardiac arrest?
Although a heart attack may cause cardiac arrest or sudden death, the terms are not the same thing. Cardiac arrest is the abrupt loss of heart function in a person who may or may not have been diagnosed with heart disease. Cardiac arrest is caused when the heart's electrical system malfunctions, which results to the heart suddenly stops working properly. Death occurs within minutes after the heart stops.
Cardiac arrest may be reversed if CPR is performed and a defibrillator is used to shock the heart and restore a normal heart rhythm within a few minutes.
According to an American Heart Association study, only half of Americans can be counted on to perform Hands-Only CPR in an emergency. If we increase our knowledge, encourage one another to become trained, and raise awareness about CPR, we can help double cardiac arrest survival rates by year 2020.
Be the difference for someone you love!
It only takes 90 seconds to learn the two steps to save a life with CPR!
Learn more about CPR and find a training course nearest you here!
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Heart-related deaths increase by 5 percent during the holiday season.
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Fast Facts
More Americans die from cardiac arrest than lung cancer, breast cancer and AIDS combined.
