Every Minute Counts in CPR
The chances of survival for a cardiac arrest victim decline by ten-percent every minute that life support—CPR— is not provided.
This translates to a very small window of survival for the victim.
Recently, rugby coach Jeff Ford suffered heart failure, but his friends began CPR.
“I have a ten-year-old daughter, a wife, a family, without their help I would’ve been in a pine box,” Ford said of his friends.
Be a hero. Learn CPR!
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