The Importance of CPR and AED Awareness
Cardiac arrest, whether inside or outside a hospital, is a leading cause of death:
• Outside the hospital, survival rates are around 10%.
• In the hospital, one in five people survive.
• Without CPR or defibrillation, survival rates decrease by 5.5% per minute.
• Bystander CPR can double or triple survival chances, while its absence reduces survival by 7-10% per minute.