Responding To Cardiac Arrest - Every Minute Counts!

A Singapore medical team is endeavoring on an ambitious target of emergency response time of 2 minutes (see the news from Channel News Asia below)This would be especially important in setting of responding to a sudden cardiac arrest case where every minute counts! The reasons being:Resuscitation is most successful if defibrillation is performed in about 5 minutes after collapseEffective bystander

Compression Only CPR

I saw the article "CPR Can Help, Even With No Training" from The New York Times (1st April 2008). This is what the article says:April 1, 2008 CPR Can Help, Even With No Training By NICHOLAS BAKALAR Even people without CPR training can save the life of an adult whose heart stops, and the American Heart Association has issued an advisory urging everyone, trained or not, to act