Teaching young people how to carry out cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) could help to save thousands of lives every year. At the moment only eight per cent of patients survive a cardiac arrest in England and less than half of bystanders intervene if they see someone collapse.
The advice features in a new report, entitled Resuscitation to Recovery, which was published by the British Heart Foundation last week.
Supported by two of NHS England’s national clinical directors, the report aims to encourage greater awareness among the general public of recognising a cardiac arrest and knowing how to perform CPR. It emphasises that bystander invention can help to treble the chances of survival and says that by the time every young person in the UK leaves school they should know how to save a life.
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