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.

Automated external defibrillator- AED device analyses the rhythm of heart. It also delivers an electrical shock or defibrillation that can help the heart in re-establishing an effective rhythm. When you train on how to use the AED device, you can help a person with difficulties in breathing.

AED device coupled with manual cardiopulmonary resuscitation using the chest compressions or mouth-to-mouth resuscitation places one in a better position to help persons who are attacked by cardiac arrest. While the time taken by medical team or paramedics to arrive in a scene of accident is pretty little, it is not sufficient enough to allow for a patient who has suffered a cardiac arrest to survive.

There are many institutions that offer the courses in physical classes or online training. The simulation technology has made it easier for people to be able to train in an environment that seems like a real life situation or event. When you acquire the resuscitation skill, you can use it anywhere whether at home, workplace, or when travelling.

You may not understand how important the classes are until that time you are confronted by an incident that requires one to be resuscitated. It may happen at home where you are the only one present but because you have not acquired the skill, you watch as your family member dies of a condition that could otherwise have been controlled. Resuscitation can increase the chances of patients attacked by circulatory arrest surviving.

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.

A person has less than 10 minutes to survive when circulatory arrest strikes and therefore, the initial moment following the attack can go a long way in saving the live. You can make yourself a hero by giving another person the chance to survive. Even one incident of life saved through resuscitating is a big achievement not only to you but also to the community. It also gives that individual another chance in life.




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