18 per cent of people surveyed in Yorkshire and the Humber have witnessed someone collapse who needs CPR, according to new research funded by the British Heart Foundation (BHF).
The BHF warns that a lack of public knowledge of CPR could be costing lives as new research from the University of Warwick also finds that those who have been trained in CPR are three times more likely to perform it.
The figures have been released today, 16 October, on Restart a Heart Day – an annual day to increase awareness of the importance of CPR.
Yorkshire and the Humber Ambulance Service (YAS) has teamed up with the BHF and Resuscitation Council (UK) to join the national campaign aimed at training more than 150,000 young people across the UK in the largest ever CPR training event of its kind.
There are over 30,000 out of hospital cardiac arrests every year in the UK, and devastatingly less than 1 in 10 survive. But according to the BHF, if survival rates matched those reported in Norway, where CPR is taught more widely, as many as 5,000 lives could be saved.
Every minute without CPR or defibrillation can reduce a person’s chance of surviving a cardiac arrest by around ten per cent.
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