Everywhere we look in life, we see forms of crisis management. Nowhere are these more prevalent than in the work of first responders – police, paramedics and firemen. A new CPR method is saving lives and fast establishing itself as the standard nationwide. In an interview for a CNN article detailing a recent situation wherein the method saved a woman’s life, which also contains easy instructions on learning CPR yourself at home, Dr. Ben Bobrow explains how and why:
“We said it’s hard to do a lot worse than 97 percent of the people dying, and so we revamped everything from how we track cardiac arrest, to how we train the public to do CPR and how we train dispatchers to give CPR instruction,” said Dr. Ben Bobrow, who oversees emergency services for the Arizona Department of Health. “What we think right now is at the very early stages of cardiac arrest, when someone initially collapses, the really important thing is to just get blood moving though the body, and that’s by doing rapid, forceful, uninterrupted compressions.”
CPR is a skill that everyone, not just first responders, should have. It takes minutes to learn and could some day save the life of someone you know.
JB
Jonathan Bernstein
https://www.bernsteincrisismanagement.com/