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Friday, September 21, 2012

So how does this example of 30% of arrests differ from the other 70%?


Longview student collapses at basketball practice

A student collapsed and briefly stopped breathing during an open basketball practice at Mark Morris High School in Longview.
The Associated Press

LONGVIEW, Wash. —
A student collapsed and briefly stopped breathing during an open basketball practice at Mark Morris High School in Longview.
A coach and parent gave CPR Sunday to 16-year-old Spencer Best of Longview until paramedics arrived and used a heart defibrillator.
His father, Rich Best, told The Daily News (http://is.gd/fRM2vn) Spencer will remain in intensive care for a couple more days this week at Randall Children's Hospital at Legacy Emmanuel Medical Center in Portland.
He says Spencer is alert and communicating. He says the men who gave him CPR saved his life.
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Information from: The Daily News, http://www.tdn.com

How does this differ? Somebody did something before the ambulance got to the scene.
It would have been a lot more certain that the outcome would be happy if there had been an AED on the sidelines - as there needs to be for every match and practice session.
Please bug your local school officials until they have an AED at the sidelines for every match and practice for every sport except, perhaps, the chess club!

CPR + Prompt Defibrillation Really Works - at least ten times better than not doing anything!


A Tucson woman saves her husband with hands-only CPR
Posted: Sep 21, 2012 11:21 AM by Ryan Haarer
Updated: Sep 21, 2012 11:21 AM
KVOA.com
TUCSON- With over 380,000 cardiac arrests every year only about 70 percent of people know how to do CPR, according to the American Heart Association.
Recently a Tucson family had quite a scare. E.J. Marx felt chest and arm pain during a soccer game. His wife Whitney got him and their infant son Kahn into the car. On the way to the hospital, E.J. went into cardiac arrest.
Whitney handled the situation perfectly. She called 911, pulled E.J. out of the car and began chest compressions. She continued until emergency responders arrived.
E.J. spent two weeks in a coma, but is thankful his wife knew what to do, as it probably saved his life.
The American Heart Association recently launched a website with a one minute tutorial on how to do hands only CPR. They are also trying to make CPR a graduation requirement in Arizona. That would give 65,000 more people the ability to save a life.
See more of E.J. and Whitney's story in the video above. To learn CPR basics visit the new website at www.HandsOnlyCPR.org.