How Knowing CPR Can Save Lives?

People are practicing CPR on mannequins during a training session. A person in a bright vest is performing chest compressions on a dummy in the foreground, with others doing the same in the background. There are onlookers watching the demonstration.

 More than 300 thousand people die because of cardiac arrest every year. The risk of heart diseases is higher in senior citizens. 70% of adults above the age of 60 have some kind of cardiac problem. There are different types of health issues that can be the cause of cardiac arrest. There are also other social factors that can lead to this situation of life or death. If people are properly trained, knowing CPR can help save lives. Trained individuals would be ready to take immediate action when required. Coast2coast First Aid & Aquatics offers all the necessary First Aid & CPR Courses in Toronto. Here are some reasons why knowing CPR can be helpful.

CPR can help save lives

               A person’s brain and organs can die within minutes when the cardiac arrest occurs. Once the heart stops pumping the blood, brain death will only take 4 to 6 minutes. Taking quick action, performing CPR on the person suffering from cardiac arrest can help to pump blood in the body. It might take professionals sometime to arrive at the scene. If you will perform CPR immediately, organs of the body including brain will get oxygen and so survival, chances will increase. The chances of survival will be doubled if you will perform CPR within 2 minutes of cardiac arrest.

CPR training is beneficial for everyone

                   More than 90% of the people who die every year due to cardiac arrest do not get immediate help. We at our Toronto First Aid & CPR training facility help you learn all the right skills. The survival chances could be improved if everyone knew how to perform CPR. Even in the younger individuals risk of cardiac arrest has increased because of a sedentary lifestyle and poor dietary habits. People of all age groups should have complete CPR training.

Your family or friends may need it

                    While getting CPR training you might be thinking about how you can help a stranger. However, someone in your family or workplace can be saved from sudden cardiac arrest because you performed CPR immediately. In 70% of cases, cardiac arrest happens at and people often do not get the chance to reach the hospital. You will be grateful for the skills that you have if the need arises. It will allow you to save the life of someone you love. In the case, you have taken a First Aid & CPR Course before, you could Recertify at one of our Downtown Toronto First Aid and CPR Recertification courses.

It can happen to anyone

              Most of the time cardiac arrest do not happen to people who are suffering from chronic heart or health condition. Traumatic accidents, choking, electric shock and drowning can be the cause of cardiac arrest. When taking one of our First Aid & CPR courses in downtown Toronto, you will be aware of all the situation where you need to be alert. There are some health conditions that can lead to cardiac arrest like.
1. Infections
2. Heart disease
3. Diabetes
4. Allergic reactions
5. Sudden cardiac arrest because of stress or depression.

Do not shy away

You might not feel confident when someone needs CPR. When you take your CPR training at Coast2coast First Aid & Aquatics your confidence level will increase and that will help you to make the right decision and save someone’s life.

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Can First Aid and CPR Save Lives?

One of the things people frequently ask is what are the chances anyone will actually need to use the skills taught in a Red Cross first aid and CPR course, in their real life?

The first thing we have to say is that regardless of how minuscule the chances are that you will be called to save a life in an emergency, you will wish for dear God that you knew how to do it.

Second, medical emergencies are not as infrequent as you might think. The number of people that have had to deal with injuries of varying degrees in their everyday lives is actually pretty mind blowing. Especially considering that Canada is a seemingly safe country.

There are natural disasters such as the all too recent fire that raged across Fort McMurray, devastating entire neighborhoods. Summer had its share of drownings too. The average is approximately just below a 100 drownings a year in Ontario alone. How many of those people could have been saved if someone knew CPR when they were fished out of the water?

Bystander CPR and your Chances of Survival

Here’s another statistic, from the States. About 300,000 a year suffer a sudden cardiac arrest, the vast majority of which occur outside the reach of medical professionals. Sadly, the survival rate is only 8%, almost all of which are a result of the victim receiving CPR from a bystander, keeping them alive until the ambulance arrived. Only a third out of the 300,000 cases received CPR, saving a good portion of the victims.

Almost not a single one of those who didn’t get CPR ended up surviving the ordeal. This is how Red Cross CPR classes truly save lives.

If this correlation is correct, increasing the number of bystander CPR cases from 30% to a 100%, will raise the total survival rate from 8% to 32% accordingly. That’s over 100,000 people who will have kept their lives.

Canadian total numbers are different due to different population sizes and other factors, but you can be sure the percentages are roughly the same. For every three bystander CPR cases, one person will survive who would have otherwise died on the spot with almost absolute certainty.

The statistics speak for themselves, and strongly support taking a Red Cross First aid and CPR course as soon as you are able. It may be you, next time. Or a friend. Or a loved one.

Don’t wait for it to happen, prepare with one of our many first aid and CPR training courses instead, and be ready when it does.

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Save A Person’s Life With CPR Training In Toronto

In a bewildering,near-tragic incident reported by CBC News early this year, a Toronto woman saved the life of a man who went into sudden cardiac arrest during a gym workout. The woman later told how she was shocked that everyone just froze in fear and no one intervened. If it wasn’t for her, the man would have died there and then, with no one to save him from a terrible, senseless death. She decided to intervene when she saw a staff member walk over to the man as he was lying on the floor, face blue. The employee then leaned down, put a defibrillator on the floor beside the man and stood back in dumbfounded confusion.

It was lucky for the victim that the 29 year old woman received her CPR training Toronto earlier, and knew how to deliver cardiopulmonary resuscitation. She had the training done when she enrolled to work as a flight attendant, and if she weren’t there, the man’s life would have ended, and even if the paramedic team does arrive on time to save the person’s life, permanent brain damage is almost entirely inevitable. It sets in just four minutes into the episode. If you ever find yourself in such a dire situation, we wrote more here on what to do during a medical emergency.

In his case, it was all thanks to her. The ambulance pulled in some 10 minutes after he fell unconscious and it was only her knowledge of CPR that saved his life. She began compressions and managed to keep them up for the entire time they waited for help to arrive.

CPR Training Toronto

In a big city, there’s always a chance someone will know CPR First Aid and will be able to help, but consider this – in a large Toronto gym, only one person knew this life saving technique. One person in an entire room full of people. Not just regular people, but health – conscious individuals who work out on a regular basis, and gym staff that should know how to deliver CPR.

Humans are fragile creatures, and can easily get hurt. It is our goal and mission to help society increase the number of people who know and are certified in this crucial skill. No one wants to ever have to deal with such situations, but sometimes we are forced to, by sheer tragic circumstance. Take a Toronto CPR training course and stay safe.

It is better to be prepared. Even going above and beyond to be prepared for responding to a cardiac emergency with CPR training! We owe it to each other. That’s why at Coast2Coast, we offer one of the top training courses in CPR.

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