Spokane Fire Department to teach Hands Only CPR at Bloomsday Tradeshow this Friday and Saturday

Spokane Fire Department to teach Hands Only CPR at Bloomsday Tradeshow this Friday and Saturday

Incident #:  None
Date of Incident:  4/25/2011
Issuing Officer:  Brian Schaeffer
The Spokane Fire Department is encouraging all Bloomsday race participants to learn the basics of Hands Only CPR. It's easy, takes just a few minutes to learn and could help save the life of a fellow Bloomie. Each year, nearly 300,000 people suffer out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in the United States and Canada. Survival rates from these events tend to be very low. CPR performed by a bystander can DOUBLE - EVEN TRIPLE - survival from out-of-hospital cardiac arrests. Unfortunately, few people attempt resuscitation-with CPR started only 25 to 30 percent of the time in those cases. To help increase the cardiac arrest survival rate in Spokane, The Spokane Fire Department has produced a short training video available on YouTube that teaches the basics of Hands Only CPR. The SFD will also have an interactive booth at the Bloomsday Trade Show this Friday and Saturday where race participants can practice Hands Only CPR on mannequins with our Firefighters. Each year the SFD strategically places medical teams on bicycles and on foot (PedMeds) in areas all along the Bloomsday course. The teams respond to everything from minor cuts and scrapes to life threatening cardiac arrests. In fact, during last year's race, a Bloomsday participant suffered a cardiac arrest near the Finish line. Teams responded immediately and successfully resuscitate the patient with CPR, defibrillation and emergency cardiac medications. In October 2010, The American Heart Association, changed its CPR standards and formally endorsed "Hands-Only" or "compression only CPR." Hands-only CPR is much simpler for the public to learn and perform. The public no longer has to coordinate rescue breaths and chest compressions. You just push hard and fast in the center until help arrives. To view the video "Hands only CPR - Saving Lives in Spokane" follow the link below. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=912qx-MMwsI The Bloomsday Trade Show hours are Friday, April 29, 11:30 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. Saturday, April 30, 9:00 a.m. - 6:30 p.m. The Spokane Fire Department is in booth 914 on the south end of the Convention Center.
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