Citizen CPR Foundation Joins Every Second Counts for the CPR & AED Awareness Rally & March
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Citizen CPR Foundation (CCPRF) will be participating in the 3rd Annual National CPR/AED Awareness Rally & March in Washington, DC on Friday, June 2nd, 2023. Over 150 heart advocates from all across the United States will provide CPR & AED demonstrations and training along the Northwest quadrant of the Washington Monument in the National Memorial […]
Defibrillation Strategies for Refractory Ventricular Fibrillation
Stu Berger, MD, Citizen CPR Foundation President, shares the following summary of “Defibrillation Strategies for Refractory Ventricular Fibrillation,” recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine: Outcomes from sudden cardiac arrest have improved over the years as a result of technological advances in defibrillation techniques and technology. Other interventions that have included community CPR-AED […]
Bystanders Save Lives in Neighboring California Cities
In two Sonoma County, Calif. cities just 40 minutes apart, the quick-thinking actions of bystanders helped save two lives in a span of less than three months. Three friends — Mason Matulaitis, Toby Ford-Monroe and Nate Jordan — jumped to their friend Mikey Serbicki’s aid when he collapsed while the four were playing two-on-two basketball […]
Partner News: WorldPoint Introduces Tools to Expand CPR Training Inclusivity, Delivery
Data from the American Heart Association shows that not only are women less likely than men to receive bystander CPR when experiencing sudden cardiac arrest; people of color are also less likely to receive life-saving bystander intervention. To help improve these troubling disparities, WorldPoint Inc. (a member of Citizen CPR Foundation’s Partner Council) recently unveiled […]
Experience in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: A Scientific Statement from the American Heart Association
The following scientific update appears in Currents courtesy of author Katie N. Dainty, PhD, MSc. For a long time, our entire focus around bystander CPR has been about training people to have the hard skills required to do CPR. While training is an important component of how we will increase survival from sudden cardiac arrest, […]
Understanding the Importance of the Lay Responder Experience in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: A Scientific Statement from the American Heart Association
The following scientific update appears in Currents courtesy of author Katie N. Dainty, PhD, MSc. For a long time, our entire focus around bystander CPR has been about training people to have the hard skills required to do CPR. While training is an important component of how we will increase survival from sudden cardiac arrest, […]
It’s Shocktober!
In 2017, the U.S. federal government officially designated October as Sudden Cardiac Arrest Awareness Month thanks to the efforts of several cardiac arrest-focused non-profits, including the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Foundation. Each year, more than 350,000 people die from sudden cardiac arrest. October is a fitting time to focus on expanding awareness and use of the […]
Drowning and Climate Change
The planet is warming. “In 2018, we burned a quarter of a million kilograms of coal, 116 million liters of gas, and 7 million liters of oil…every SECOND. In the span of just 50 years, atmospheric CO2 emissions have reached the highest concentrations in over 3 million years. The consequent trapping of longwave radiation has […]
Survivors, Rescuers Reunited in New Hampshire
What better way to celebrate the power of the chain of survival, including bystander action, than by reuniting SCA survivors with the people who helped rescue them? Dartmouth Health member Cheshire Medical Center recently hosted the first Rescuers Reuniting With the Rescued: A Celebration of Survival, bringing together 10 people who experienced SCA in 2021 […]
What Is A HEARTSafe Community?
The monthly HEARTSafe Community Champion webinars are just one part of our larger HEARTSafe Community initiative, which we started in 2019. Our HEARTSafe Community program is a set of criteria and guidelines designed to improve outcomes to sudden cardiac arrest emergencies through a specific set of training, preparation and response protocols. This criteria supports the […]
