Up to 206 Million People Reached and Over 5.4 Million Trained in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Worldwide: The 2019 International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation World Restart a Heart Initiative

Up to 206 Million People Reached and Over 5.4 Million Trained in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Worldwide: The 2019 International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation World Restart a Heart Initiative

Abstract Sudden out‐of‐hospital cardiac arrest is the third leading cause of death in industrialized nations. Many of these lives could be saved if bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation rates were better. “All citizens of the world can save a life—CHECK—CALL—COMPRESS.” With these words, the Intern...

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Main Authors: Bernd W. Böttiger, Andrew Lockey, Richard Aickin, Maria Carmona, Pascal Cassan, Maaret Castrén, SSC Chakra Rao, Allan De Caen, Raffo Escalante, Marios Georgiou, Amber Hoover, Karl B. Kern, Abdul Majeed S. Khan, Cianna Levi, Swee H. Lim, Vinay Nadkarni, Naomi Kondo Nakagawa, Kevin Nation, Robert W. Neumar, Jerry P. Nolan, Jannicke Mellin‐Olsen, Jacopo Pagani, Monica Sales, Federico Semeraro, David Stanton, Cristina Toporas, Heleen van Grootven, Tzong‐Luen Wang, Nilmini Wijesuriya, Gillian Wong, Gavin D. Perkins
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2020-08-01
Series:Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease
Subjects:
“World Restart a Heart”
cardiac arrest
cardiopulmonary resuscitation
International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation
lay resuscitation
Online Access:https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.120.017230

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