Can You Really Save a Life? Study Reveals the Impact of Bystander CPR
Getting yourself trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) could prove to be lifesaving for someone else. New research shows that bystander CPR can substantially improve a persons odds of surviving a cardiac arrest. CPR is a valuablestopgap interventionfor cardiac arrest, which is when someones heart stops beating. Someone practicing CPR on a training dummy.© athima tongloom via Getty The researchers found that bystander CPR was consistently associated with improved outcomes relative to no bystander CPR at all....