It’s easy to learn and the benefits of knowing how to perform it are staggering. Learning “Hands-Only CPR” could save someone’s life, and Katie Connolly, a CPR manager for the American Heart Association, said 80 percent of sudden cardiac arrests happen outside the hospital and most commonly at home. To help someone, she said, you only need to know to simple things.
“We need them to dial 911 to start that chain of survival, which gets the EMS out to you, and then obviously pushing hard and fast, which keeps the blood pumping throughout their body – which is essentially keeping their organs alive, to allow them to be back to that same person they were before they had their event,” said Connolly.
