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88% of Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) cases occur in the victim's home. Roughly 70% of Americans do not know how to administer Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR), or have not kept up on the required training. 326,000 people in the United States are hospitalized due to SCA.
In order to gain a better understanding of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation one must know where it originated. The ten year period from 1950-1960 was a decade of improvement for resuscitation measures. Peter Safar, James Elam, and The United States Military were all contributors to the development of all forms of resuscitative revival. Elam and Safar were the first people to discover mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. Soon after CPR was developed. Over the last few …show more content…
This is mostly true, however there will always be room for improvements. As technology advances CPR will become more effective, and will be able to potentially save more lives in the not so distant future. This particular form of resuscitation has saved many lives, but that is not always the case. Many critics try to prove that CPR does not save lives. Although the number of people who die while Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation outnumbers the amount of people that actually live after the administration of CPR; It still manages to save individuals who are facing death. The new advances that have been made created a bigger window of survival for victims. Just like a chef trying to perfect a new recipe, it takes time to perfect the formula for CPR. Every few years the AHA (Amereican Heart Association) guts and destroys every book, pamphlet, and website they could dream of just to rewrite them. Of course the new editions of everything are twenty times better than the ones before. The whole process of rewriting facts is not as easy as the pros make it seem. It can take years to come up with a finished product, but without careful consideration trained CPR providers would not be able to save helpless …show more content…
Throughout the many, many years of study, fantastic men and women, who carried brilliants minds that just so happened to discover phenomenal techniques for CPR have long gone, but will never be forgotten for the contribution to extensive life saving measures. Life is already short enough. When tragedy strikes unwilling victims, the people who love and care about them expect someone to know what to do. This is where CPR instructors come in to provide exceptional education to those who would love to be on the caregiving end of horrible situations. unfortunately those people who are usually the caregivers might find themselves on the receiving end of a nasty ordeal. When something of this sort occurs one’s limits are tested and the ultimate faith is granted to the provider to be sure that their loved one, who may have once been a provider, is now a victim, will receive adequate care in a timely manner. A tremendous thank you goes out to those who have a dream of opening up a small business to teach others in their own the basics of saving a life, and making that dream come true. Without CPR instructor to provide other citizens with this stupendous information, 326,000 more people would die every single year. Safar began to pave the extremely long road for resuscitatio. It was he that made things