More than 350,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests occur each year in the United States.

• During cardiac arrest, immediate CPR can double or triple a person’s chance of survival.

• Less than half (46%) of bystanders will perform CPR

• Every minute counts; survival rates without CPR, decrease by 10% as each minute passes

• Neither current emergency medical services (EMS) nor first responders (police, fire) can routinely get to the scene of an out-of hospital cardiac arrest within the 3-minute time window required to radically improve survival.

• The average ambulance response time – for an EMS unit to arrive on the scene from the time of a 911 call is 7 minutes

• This emergency response time increased to more than 14 minutes in rural settings.

• More than one in three American adults (estimated 85.6 million), have more than one form of cardiovascular disease.

• On average, someone dies of CVD every 37 seconds in the US.

Contact Todd Cockrum @  lowellcpr@gmail.com