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CPR can save lives. Here’s how (and when) to do it

Over the past decade, CPR has changed. The currently-recommended technique is now incredibly simple, avoids putting your mouth on a stranger’s face (huzzah!), and could double—or triple—the victim’s chances of surviving a cardiac arrest.

Even if you learned this life-saving skill a while ago, it’s time to brush up. After all, if nobody takes action when someone collapses from cardiac arrest (that means their heart has stopped beating), that person will die.

“Cardiac arrest is uniformly fatal unless CPR is delivered,” says emergency-room physician Benjamin Abella, the director of the Center for Resuscitation Science at Penn Medicine.

The goal of doing CPR is not to bring…

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 CPR can save lives. Here’s how (and when) to do it

Over the past decade, CPR has changed. The currently-recommended technique is now incredibly simple, avoids putting your mouth on a stranger’s face (huzzah!), and could double—or triple—the victim’s chances of surviving a cardiac arrest.

7 CPR Steps Everyone Should Know

Learn these CPR steps now so you know what to do if someone if ever experiencing a life-threatening emergency.

Citizen CPR Foundation

The mission of the Foundation is "to strengthen the Chain of Survival." The Foundation has three primary co-sponsors: the American Heart Association, the American Red Cross and the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada. The primary "products" of the Foundation are its biennial conference, now called the "Emergency Cardiovascular Care Update," and the quarterly newsletter, Currents in Emergency Cardiovascular Care.

CPR Certified

Having a hard time fitting your CPR recertification requirement into your busy schedule? Don’t worry. We’ve got you covered. By choosing to receive your CPR and first aid certification online through CPRCertified.com, you can study on your own time. You can pause and resume videos, skip the subjects you already know, and take the online CPR certification test as soon as you feel ready.

CPR Dude

This site provides you with information about CPR, but is not a stand-alone training resource. In order to be prepared to help others, you need to practice CPR and have your skills checked by a real person.

International CPR Institute

The International CPR Institute offers a blend of emergency care training. With a combination of online training and refresher courses as well as on-site training, corporations, large and small, have come to rely on us to train their employees effectively.

ProCPR

It's easy to become complacent with your CPR training, especially if a traditional class is the only CPR class you've ever known. Well, what if we told you there's a better way to learn?

Resuscitation Council UK

We provide education and reference materials to healthcare professionals and the general public in the most effective methods of resuscitation.

The ACT Foundation

The ACT Foundation is a multiple award-winning, national charitable organization with a mission to promote health and empower Canadians to save lives. Since its inception in 1985, the organization has concentrated its efforts on promoting citizen CPR training, early defibrillation programs and paramedic systems.

ACLS Certification Institute

Mobile Training Solutions serves the advanced cardiac and basic life support certification needs of busy healthcare professionals. Our exclusive training solution - a computer-based, self-directed interactive certification system - allows you to receive an American Heart Association ACLS Healthcare Provider card or American Heart Association BLS Provider card, upon successful completion of the course.

ACLS Training Center

Helping Prepare You for Advanced Cardiac Life Support Certification

American Academy of CPR and First Aid

American Academy of CPR & First Aid provides training courses designed by a team of U.S board certified and licensed medical doctors. Our certifications are signed by authorized board certified U.S medial doctors.

American AED CPR Association

The American AED CPR Association has been providing training in CPR, First Aid, ACLS, PALS and First Responder for over a decade. We have recently expanded our curriculum to include Pet First Aid, Blood born Pathogens and our very popular Babysitter Safety Class.

American Healthcare Academy

American Health Care Academy offer Nationally Certified and easy to understand Online CPR and Online First Aid courses. Upon completion of the course, you will have developed a strong ability to respond in an emergency situation.

American Heart Association

As the world leader in CPR, first aid and emergency cardiovascular care (ECC) training and education, the American Heart Association offers a variety of options for you to learn lifesaving skills. Locate a local training center to become an AHA Instructor or to choose courses for family members and friends, employees, or healthcare providers.

American Red Cross

The American Red Cross delivers CPR training designed for the way you live, and learn. With options available on weekdays and weekends, plus online, in-person and blended Simulation Learning courses, you can get the CPR training you need on your schedule.

Australian Resuscitation Council

The ARC aims to foster and co-ordinate the practice and teaching of resuscitation, promote uniformity and standardisation of resuscitation, and act as a voluntary co-ordinating body

PulsePoint

PulsePoint is a 501(c)(3) non-profit foundation based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Our mission is to make it much easier for citizens who are trained in CPR to use their life saving skills to do just that…save lives! Through the use of modern, location-aware mobile devices PulsePoint is building applications that work with local public safety agencies to improve communications with citizens and empower them to help reduce the millions of annual deaths from Sudden Cardiac Arrest.

Less Stress Instructional Services

Emergencies happen. They strike us at work, at home, and often when we least expect them. Our corporate mission at Less Stress Instructional Services is to provide men and women with the tools, like CPR and first aid training, to deal with them properly. From municipal EMS training to corporate first aid teams to parental pediatric CPR classes, our goal is provide every individual who wants knowledge with the information and skills needed to deal with a tragedy.

MayoClinic

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a lifesaving technique useful in many emergencies, including heart attack or near drowning, in which someone's breathing or heartbeat has stopped.

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