Sudden cardiac arrest occurs every 12 minutes in Canada.
- Without immediate intervention, the survival rate is approximately 6 per cent
- Immediate access to cardiac pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and public access defibrillators (PAD) may increase the chance of survival by 75 per cent.
What you can do:
- Recommend and support PAD throughout your community
- Endorse and support citizen/community CPR training
- Citizen CPR and PAD save lives.
For more information visit www.aedprogram.heartandstroke.ca.