What if you could have saved a life had you known CPR? What if you needed help and no one around you could help you? Take a few hours today to learn this life-saving skill. It can change your life—and someone else's life—forever.

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TAKE ACTION TODAY

  1. Find a place near you that teaches CPR or arrange for a certified CPR instructor to come to your school or workplace. Your local hospital is a good place to start.
  2. Sign up for a class with a family member, a friend, or even your kids.
  3. Learn CPR. It only takes a few hours.
  4. Post CPR guidelines in a kitchen cupboard, your office, your car, and anywhere else you frequent. These guidelines may come in handy during emergency situations. Tell people around you that the guidelines are there in case they need to perform CPR.

FACTS

  • Cardiac arrest may be caused by drowning, drug overdoses, poisoning, electrocution, and many other conditions.
  • 95% of sudden cardiac arrest victims die before reaching the hospital.
  • Nearly 80% of all out-of-hospital cardiac arrests happen at home.
  • 4 to 6 minutes after someone experiences cardiac arrest, brain death starts to occur.
  • CPR helps maintain vital blood flow to the heart and brain and increases the amount of time that an electric shock from a defibrillator can be effective.
  • CPR can double a victim’s chance of survival.

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Excerpted from: Every Monday Matters: 52 Ways to Make a Difference by Matthew Emerzian and Kelly Bozza. Copyright © 2008 Every Monday Matters LLC. Excerpted by permission of Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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