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AED + CPR Save Lives
St. John Ambulance (British Columbia & Yukon)
1.
What is Sudden
Cardiac Arrest?
Defibrillation is the only effective
treatment for Sudden Cardiac Arrest.
Sudden Cardiac Arrest
Combined with CPR, the use of an AED
(SCA) occurs when
may increase the likelihood of
heart function ceases abruptly and
survival by 75% or more
without warning. The heart is no
longer able to pump blood to the rest
of the body. Often confused with a
What is Defibrillation?
heart attack (blockages in the heart’s
Defibrillation is a process in
blood vessels), SCA is essentially an
which an electronic device
electrical problem that creates an
gives an electric shock to the
abnormal heart rhythm (arrhythmia)
heart. This helps reestablish
that prevents the heart from pumping normal contraction rhythms in a heart having
blood to all vital organs.
dangerous arrhythmia or in cardiac arrest .
2.
One Type of Arrhythmia
[uh-rith-mee-uh]
Ventricular Fibrillation n.
An often fatal form of arrhythmia characterized by rapid, irregular
fibrillar twitching of the ventricles of the heart in place of normal
contractions, resulting in a loss of pulse.
Ventricular fibrillation (v-fib for
short) is the most serious cardiac
rhythm disturbance.
More women die from heart
disease and stroke than men.
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Deaths
From Heart
disease and
stroke
Without CPR and defibrillation, fewer than 5 per cent
of people who have a cardiac
arrest outside of a hospital
survive.
Deaths From
Breast Cancer
as many women die from heart disease and stroke as
breast cancer. Yet 37% of Canadian women perceive
breast cancer to be the greatest health problem,
compared to 13% for heart disease.
CPR is as easy as
C-A-B
Compressions Airway
Push hard and fast on the
victim’s chest
10 Seconds
After the heart
stops, loss of
consciousness
can happen in
less than 10
seconds.
1 minute
With every
one minute
that passes,
the chance of
survival
decreases 7
to 10 percent.
3 minutes
According to
experts, a
bystander
should be able
to retrieve a
defibrillator and
bring it back to
where the
person has
collapsed within
three minutes,
or about 100
metres.
The
hardest
working organ
100,000
Number of times the average
heart beats (expands and
contracts) each day
2,000
Gallons of blood
pumped each day
2.5 billion
Number of times in a 70-year
lifetime an average human
heart beats
Breathing
Tilt the victim’s head back and Give mouth-to-mouth
lift the chin to open the airway rescue breaths
4 minutes
The brain begins
to suffer from
lack of oxygen;
brain damage
can occur after
about five
minutes. CPR
can keep blood
and oxygen
getting to the
brain and delay
the onset of
brain damage.
5 minutes
If CPR and a
defibrillator are
both used within
this time, the
chance of
survival goes up
by 75%.
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10 minutes
Without medical
intervention, the
chance of
resuscitation
becomes very
unlikely.
12 minutes
After 12 minutes
without
defibrillation, the
chance of
survival
decreases to
less than 5
percent.