Are You Prepared to Perform CPR?

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Anyone can be a hero. Learning hands-only cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) could help you save someone’s life. Several classes and resources are available to County employees.

Hands-only CPR involves chest compressions at 100 to 120 per minute without using mouth-to-mouth breathing. Properly performed while waiting for medical professionals to arrive, it can double or triple a person’s likelihood of survival. For every minute CPR is delayed, survival from cardiac arrest decreases by 7% to 10%.

County Classes

The County is offering a new hands-only CPR class to employees.

This 2-hour course gives a brief overview of CPR techniques, including hands-only CPR and AED use for adults, children and infants. The class also presents an overview of basic first aid to include bleeding control, EpiPen administration for anaphylaxis, Narcan for opioid overdoses and how to relieve a choking victim. Employees may receive a certificate of completion, but they do not receive an official certification in CPR.

You can find additional First Aid with CPR and AED Certification classes by visiting the Learning Management System (LMS) and searching “CPR”.

Revive and Survive

Earlier this year, the County partnered with UC San Diego to launch a new initiative to help save lives. The program, Revive & Survive, was created to train 1 million San Diegans on how to perform hands-only CPR for people in cardiac arrest

For more information about Revive & Survive San Diego, including opportunities for CPR training, visit revivesurvive.ucsd.edu.

This App Could Save a Life

Finding and deploying an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) can help save a life in those critical minutes before a paramedic arrives. In fact, you’re twice as likely to survive an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest if you receive both CPR and AED assistance, compared to CPR alone. 

The PulsePoint Respond app provides a map of nearby AEDs. Download it today.

San Diego has used the PulsePoint AED app to build one of the most comprehensive and model AED registries in the country with more than 145,000 monthly active users.

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