Norwalk Hospital, in collaboration with the Westport Weston Wilton Medical Reserve Corps, Westport, Weston and Wilton EMS, Westport Family YMCA, Connecticut Chapter of the American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association, and CERT will present “Hands For Life Westport Weston Wilton,” a free, tri-town community-wide Hands-Only CPR and AED training event on Sunday, May 3, at the Westport YMCA from 10am to 4pm.
The training process only takes 15 minutes, but will empower community members to take action when someone is experiencing cardiac arrest and help save lives. No advanced registration is required.
The goal of the event is to provide as many community members as possible with the confidence and skills to recognize and act when someone is suffering cardiac arrest.
Administering Hands-Only CPR helps maintain blood flow to vital organs until help arrives and therefore, increases chances of survival.
- Each year 359,400 Americans suffer sudden cardiac arrest
- Each year 325,257 Americans die from sudden cardiac arrest
- Equivalent loss of life: 4 Boeing 747 aircrafts crashing & killing everyone on board each day of the year!
- Less than one in four receives CPR from a bystander, and only about 7 percent of cardiac arrest victims survive.
- Survival rates fall 10 percent each minute without CPR before emergency medical assistance.
- Experts agree that if more people knew how to recognize cardiac arrest and how to provide effective, simple-to-apply Hands Only CPR, more victims could be helped in