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Texas CPR Training, LLC
Serving Dallas Texas and surrounding areas
Sudden cardiac arrest is the leading cause of
death in adults. Most arrests occur in
persons with underlying heart disease.
CPR doubles a person's chance of survival
from sudden cardiac arrest.
75% of all cardiac arrest happen in people's
homes.
The typical victim of cardiac arrest is a man
in his early 60's and a woman in her late 60's.
Cardiac arrest occurs twice as frequently in
men compared to women.
There has never been a case of HIV
transmitted by mouth-to-mouth CPR.
In sudden cardiac arrest, the heart goes form
a normal heartbeat to a quivering rhythm called
ventricular fibrillation (VF). This
happens in approximately 2/3rds of all cardiac
arrests. VF is fatal unless an electric
shock called defibrillation can be given.
CPR does not stop VF, but CPR extends the window
of time in which defibrillation can be
effective.
CPR provides a trickle of oxygenated blood to
the brain and heart and keeps these organs alive
until defibrillation can shock the heart into a
normal rhythm.
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