No Fear CPR

Summary

"No Fear CPR" emphasizes the critical importance of learning CPR and overcoming the anxiety associated with it. The video urges all individuals, regardless of their age or background, to equip themselves with CPR skills as they can make the difference between life and death in emergency situations. It highlights the simplicity of performing CPR, introduces the advances in techniques and technologies like AEDs, and underscores the role of bystanders in improving cardiac arrest survival rates. The overarching message is about empowerment, readiness, and the community's role in saving lives.

Highlights

• CPR can be taught in just 20 minutes using tools like CPR Anytime, making it accessible to everyone. 📚
• The new hands-only CPR focuses on compressions over breaths, making it easier to perform. Breathe easy, and keep on pumping! 👐
• AEDs provide simple, step-by-step audio instructions, demystifying their use and enhancing public confidence. 🎤
• Bystander intervention with CPR dramatically improves the chances of survival, underscoring the difference one person can make. 🌟
• Implementation of advanced CPR strategies and tools like the rescue pod and Lucas device turbocharge survival outcomes. 🚑

Key Takeaways

• CPR is simple and life-saving! Learn it now and be prepared to make a difference in emergencies. 💪
• Don't fear messing up—any CPR is better than no CPR at all! Mistakes are less harmful than inaction. 👍
• Technologies like AEDs are made foolproof and easy to use, so don't hesitate to apply them when needed. 🚀
• Hands-only CPR is effective and easy to perform. Just pump hard and fast in the center of the chest. 😊
• Every minute counts! You can increase survival chances by acting quickly in cardiac emergencies. ⏰

Overview

In a heartfelt demonstration, "No Fear CPR" calls on all individuals to learn CPR, emphasizing the ease and impact of this life-saving skill. The video passionately urges viewers to cast away fears of doing harm and instead focus on the potential to save lives. Learning CPR is shown not only as simple and accessible, especially with modern educational tools, but also absolutely crucial in emergencies.

The video highlights stunning advancements in CPR and emergency care technology, like hands-only CPR and AEDs, which increase the chances of survival when used promptly. CPR training is showcased as a community-wide initiative, from school programs to first responders, collaboratively striving for higher survival rates in cardiac arrest cases.

A focus on continuous learning and improvement in CPR methods is evident with new strategies that leverage technology to provide efficient and high-quality medical interventions. Viewers are inspired to take initiative, knowing they are supported by a robust network of tools and community efforts, ready to help when every second counts.

Chapters

• 00:00 - 01:00: Introduction to CPR The chapter discusses the importance of learning CPR, emphasizing that it is easy to learn and remember. It encourages readers to take CPR training as it empowers them with the knowledge to potentially save someone’s life in an unexpected situation. The chapter underlines the value of being prepared, even if one does not anticipate needing to use CPR immediately.
• 01:00 - 02:00: Importance and Impact of CPR The chapter emphasizes how CPR is crucial for survival in cases of sudden cardiac arrest. It highlights that successful CPR results in full life recovery for the person affected. The key message is the importance of bystander CPR and the necessity for everyone to feel comfortable performing it. The chapter also reassures that using Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) is straightforward and should not be feared.
• 02:00 - 03:00: Understanding Cardiac Arrest The chapter titled 'Understanding Cardiac Arrest' emphasizes the importance of overcoming fear to perform CPR and potentially save lives. It is a collaborative initiative to educate and empower individuals to take action during cardiac emergencies. The chapter highlights the severity of sudden Cardiac Arrest, affecting over 350,000 individuals in the country, with a survival rate that is disappointingly low.
• 03:00 - 04:00: New CPR Guidelines The chapter discusses the complex electrical system within the heart, focusing on the role of pacemaker cells which regulate the heart's rhythm. It explains that problems in this electrical system can lead to serious conditions such as a very slow heart rate, necessitating a pacemaker, or chaotic fibrillation that stops the heart from beating effectively.
• 04:00 - 05:00: Training and Education in CPR The chapter titled 'Training and Education in CPR' discusses the unpredictability and sudden onset of cardiac arrest, emphasizing that it can happen anytime and anywhere, regardless of activity or location. It highlights the importance of being prepared for such emergencies, suggesting that training in CPR is crucial given the nature of cardiac arrest, which can occur without warning and is a leading cause of death in America. The narrative underscores the fear associated with its abrupt occurrence while noting there are risk factors involved.
• 05:00 - 06:00: Common Concerns and Myths about CPR This chapter delves into common concerns and misconceptions surrounding CPR (Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation). It begins by highlighting the unpredictability of heart rhythm problems, which can occur in relatively young individuals in their 30s to 60s, often leading to sudden cardiac arrest without warning. The narrative emphasizes the shock and suddenness of these medical emergencies, stressing that such incidents can occur during ordinary activities like playing basketball or golf. The chapter aims to address these myths and concerns, reassuring that with proper knowledge and preparedness, such situations can often be managed effectively without being fatal.
• 06:00 - 07:00: Hands-Only CPR The chapter discusses the traditional approach to CPR and highlights a new initiative called 'Take Heart America' aimed at improving survival rates after cardiac arrest. Despite CPR being performed the same way for 45 years, recent scientific developments have introduced new tools and strategies that could enhance its effectiveness.
• 07:00 - 08:00: Using AEDs in Emergency Situations The chapter discusses the introduction and implementation of Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) in emergency situations. It highlights the efforts by Taker at America to incorporate these tools alongside other techniques to improve cardiac arrest survival rates. Early data suggests that the use of AEDs is effective in saving more lives. In November 2005, the American Heart Association released new CPR guidelines that align with these efforts.
• 08:00 - 09:00: Advanced CPR Techniques and Devices The chapter 'Advanced CPR Techniques and Devices' discusses significant changes in CPR guidelines, highlighting the shift from focusing on airway and oxygen supply to ensuring effective chest compressions for better blood circulation. It emphasizes the importance of moving blood to vital organs to increase chances of survival during the initial critical minutes of cardiac arrest.
• 09:00 - 10:00: Case Study: Personal Story of Survival In this chapter, the focus is on a personal story of survival tied to widespread CPR training in the St Cloud area. Every ninth grader in the Greater St Cloud area school system receives training on how to perform CPR and use an AED in just 20 minutes. This initiative utilizes a tool called CPR Anytime, which includes a small mannequin that learners can bring home to teach their parents and neighbors. Through this program, approximately 8,000 people have been trained, highlighting a community-wide effort to promote life-saving skills.
• 10:00 - 11:00: The Role of AEDs in Saving Lives In this chapter, the importance of Automatic External Defibrillators (AEDs) in lifesaving situations is emphasized. The chapter highlights how even children as young as fifth graders can be effectively trained to use AEDs, given its simplicity and ease of learning. It advocates for learning CPR and mentions common fears people have, such as causing harm or making a situation worse. By gaining knowledge and training, these fears can be alleviated, allowing people to act confidently during emergencies. The chapter also touches upon the fear and hesitation of physically touching a person in critical condition, particularly when they are pulseless.
• 11:00 - 12:00: Comprehensive Emergency Response The chapter titled 'Comprehensive Emergency Response' discusses the importance of taking immediate action during emergencies, particularly cardiac arrest situations. It emphasizes that hesitation or fear of making a mistake should not prevent bystanders from responding, as the person in cardiac arrest is already in a critical state. The chapter encourages calling 911, performing chest compressions, and if trained and comfortable, providing rescue breathing. However, if there are concerns about infection or personal discomfort, chest compressions alone are recommended.
• 12:00 - 13:00: Cooling Therapy and Its Benefits The chapter discusses the importance and benefits of hands-only CPR as approved by the American Heart Association. It highlights that many people struggled with traditional mouth-to-mouth CPR since it was complicated and often incorrectly executed. The focus now is on chest compressions, specifically placing hands in the center of the chest and applying hard, fast compressions at a rate of 100 per minute, to ensure effectiveness in CPR.
• 13:00 - 14:00: Revolutionizing Emergency Medicine The chapter 'Revolutionizing Emergency Medicine' discusses important advancements in emergency response procedures. Key focal points include the emphasis on prioritizing chest compressions over rescue breaths when encountering a person who isn't breathing. There's a reinforced directive to immediately assess the situation, ensure to call emergency services (911), and use an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) if available. The importance of performing chest compressions correctly is highlighted, specifically compressing the chest 1.5 to 2 inches deep, ensuring that hands come off the chest between compressions to allow full chest recoil, ultimately aimed at improving the efficiency of CPR and patient outcomes.
• 14:00 - 15:00: Future Directions in CPR and Emergency Care The chapter discusses the vital steps in emergency care during a cardiac arrest. It emphasizes the importance of creating negative pressure in the chest to improve blood circulation. In the event of witnessing someone collapse, the immediate action is to call 911 before initiating CPR. The text highlights the importance of balancing the urgency of CPR with ensuring emergency services are contacted to bring necessary life-saving tools.

No Fear CPR Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 [Music] it's easy to learn it's easy to remember and go out and learn CPR that's what we need you to do this turbocharges CPR it just gives you a good feeling that you know that you can actually help and save someone and you never know it's going to happen take CPR even if at current you're not going to use it cuz one day it might happen and when you do
• 00:30 - 01:00 it and everything goes well you're going to be proud you could take somebody who's in cardiac arrest and give them full life outcomes from Sudden Cardiac Arrest survival is dependent on bystander CPR and so we really need to make sure that everybody feels comfortable doing CPR and they're willing to step in and do something because that is the key factor here is being willing to take action 17 18 they don't need to be afraid of an ad they don't need to be afraid of how to use it it's foolproof
• 01:00 - 01:30 really and stop being afraid it's okay you're not going to hurt them you're probably going to help them and you might save a life no fear CPR take action save lives is a co-production of a l health system and tpt's Minnesota Channel funding has been provided by Mercy and unity hospitals Foundation sudden Cardiac Arrest is a big problem in this country it strikes over 350,000 people and the average Survivor rate remains dismal only about
• 01:30 - 02:00 5% inside the heart there is a complex electrical system and there are pacemaker cells which tell the heart to beat and when that electrical system isn't functioning well people either have a very slow heart rate and they need a pacemaker or if it goes Haywire they'll kill over it's total chaos and the muscle just sort of fibrillates and the pump doesn't work and that is is the
• 02:00 - 02:30 leading cause of death in [Music] America and that can happen anytime anywhere for any reason it doesn't have to be that you're out working in the yard or or working on your car or or running at the whatever it just can happen and that's the most frightening thing about it there certainly are risk factors for cardiac arrest but Cardiac Arrest is that sudden onset of a lethal
• 02:30 - 03:00 Rhythm problem in the heart and that's what kills people and we're not talking about people in their '90s we're talking about people in the 30 4S 50s and 60s it's incredible for me I mean I was 33 years old some people understand how how it is dealing with an illness but this is something that is so sudden and and you don't know what going to happen it just happens you know a lot of times for no real reason it doesn't have to be that way doesn't have to be that way on the basketball court or on the golf
• 03:00 - 03:30 court for professional athletes doesn't have to be that way for a marathon runner it turns out that there are treatments that are really terrific but they're not being used and so take heart America was set up to demonstrate that if you use those treatments you could save a lot more people we've been doing CPR pretty much the same way for about 45 years with really no improvement in Cardiac Arrest survival recent science has shown that there's some new tools and strategies so
• 03:30 - 04:00 we've got a new tool belt new bag of tricks that we want to implement and taker at America is trying to implement all those things at the same time to improve Cardiac Arrest survival I think we're starting to show and get some early data that this stuff really works that we will save more lives by doing these things in November 2005 the American Heart Association released some new CPR
• 04:00 - 04:30 guidelines this is really the first time there's been some major changes in how we do CPR in the old days we used to really focus on more Airway more air more oxygen is better and now we've learned that these patients have enough oxygen dissolved in their bloodstream for the first five minutes or so of a cardiac arrest we've got to do a better job of moving that blood around so doing a better job of chest compressions or circulation to move that blood around to the heart and the Brain to increase chance of survival and you can teach
• 04:30 - 05:00 somebody how to use an AED and do CPR literally in 20 minutes every ninth grader in St Cloud and the Greater St Cloud area school system has been trained on how to do CPR with a new little CPR device called CPR anytime which teaches people how to do CPR in 20 minutes and then they can take this little mannequin home and teach their parents and their neighbors how to do it and they all get credit for this and so we've trained thousands some 8,000 people in St Cloud Minnesota since starting this
• 05:00 - 05:30 we've trained uh kids down at the age of fifth grade who can successfully do it it's really simple and easy it's easy to learn it's easy to remember and go out and learn CPR that's what we need you to do the biggest problem is that they're afraid they might do something wrong and make them matter worse uh but I think if they actually took the time to know what they need to do then everything should go easy yeah and probably like touching another person might be kind of scary especially if they're like pulseless and
• 05:30 - 06:00 they don't really know what's going to happen and they have to try thinking straight through people are afraid of doing something wrong or hurting the patient they're already dead we're not going to hurt them anymore you can't hurt somebody on Cardiac Arrest they're already dead you're not going to make them any worse so call 911 start pumping on the chest if you've been trained and can appropriately do rescue breathing then go ahead and do it but you're uncomfortable with that or you're worried about infection risk or other things then just start pumping on the
• 06:00 - 06:30 chest a lot of people were afraid of doing mouth to mouth and doing it correctly it's more complicated it's harder to do it's harder to do correctly and the problem was people weren't doing enough chest compressions so with the recent approval by American Heart Association for hands only CPR it's basically put your hands in the center of the chest between the nipples and pump hard and fast 100 times a [Music] minute and with compression on CPR the
• 06:30 - 07:00 goal is is that when you come upon a person because they already have oxygen in their circulatory system rather than worrying about giving those breaths right away we still do the assessment still call 911 still get the AED but right away we can find our position after we assess that they're not breathing don't worry about giving breaths and go right to giving compressions we want to make sure we push hard enough and we want to make sure we push fast enough okay by pushing hard we need to compress the chest 1 and 1 half to 2 in we need to make make sure our hands come off every time so that we
• 07:00 - 07:30 actually create some negative pressure in the chest which is going to push the blood through and make it circulate more out to the body a person collapses with sudden cardiac rest um if it's witnessed and you see the person go down um obviously the first thing you want to do is make sure 911 is called a lot of times people want to right away jump down and help that person and obviously we need to get CPR going but you need to get those other life-saving tools along so we tell people yell for help call for help if you have to pick up a phone and
• 07:30 - 08:00 dial it okay once you've got help coming on the way um if there's additional people there you can send someone for an AED if there is one in the building that person who was first there right away needs to start CPR and with the hands only CPR they can start with compression only until a barrier device or some type of mask shows up get your hands in position and then go ahead elbows locked shoulders directly over and you're going to start doing compressions at the rate of about 100 a minute so go ahead and go
• 08:00 - 08:30 to town heyy are you okay you okay hey you go call 911 get me an 80 go 911a okay if they're not breathing [Applause] good
• 08:30 - 09:00 everybody take a breather Shake get the blood back in your wrist yeah there go about 500 calor if you know how to do mouth to mouth then you should do both chest compressions and breathing the correct breathing rate for a bystander is 30 compressions and then you quickly give two breaths and then resume chest compressions so that most of the time
• 09:00 - 09:30 90% of the minute you should be delivering chest compressions almost 2 years ago I had some upper back pain I took a muscle relaxer and went to bed I woke up a few hours later and was sick to my stomach and told my husband that I still wasn't feeling well and that I was going to go down to the couch 20 minutes later he heard a noise and he came downstairs to ask me what the noise was and he shook me and my head flopped to
• 09:30 - 10:00 the side like it really shouldn't do my husband being an EMT that's what his trained profession is he pulled me onto the floor and started doing CPR and called 911 he doesn't work 911 service so I was actually the first person he's had to ever do it on and um so that was a big that was a big deal for him it still is I mean we still talk about it gives us chills when we think about it
• 10:00 - 10:30 within 3 minutes the Anoka County Sheriff's Department showed up with an AED and shocked me the next step will be getting the AED by getting the AED we can apply it to the patient deliver a shock that potentially can take that erratic Rhythm that's not producing a pulse and bring it back to a normal Rhythm okay obviously chest compressions are good even if we're doing them great we're probably not mimicking what a normal heartbeat would do so getting that AED
• 10:30 - 11:00 on soon so that we can get that heartbeat back is going to be very important aeds stand for automatic external defibrillators which are basically there to take that person who's had the sudden cardiac arrest and has that um electrical failure and it takes it and it delivers a shock to try to get it beating again okay so it it tries to basically take that erratic Rhythm and jump it back into a normal Rhythm so that it can start beating and pushing blood out it's like rebooting your
• 11:00 - 11:30 computer when you're having a problem with your computer Sometimes the best option is just to go ahead and restart it when it does that we have a go for main engine start it gets everything going gets the system back online and that's basically what an AED does it takes person who's having that sudden Cardiac Arrest reboots it gets everything back online so it's functioning like it should and this is a device that is capable of seeing that the heart rhythm is terribly irregular not regular at all
• 11:30 - 12:00 and then it will charge up and it will deliver a certain amount of energy typically about 150 to 200 jewels and that gives you a big jolt and often that's enough to restart the heart you'll notice that on all of them they're real clear about here's what you need to do to get me going you know pull um push the on off um lift to open so um all of the aeds that are out
• 12:00 - 12:30 in the public are real clear on on easy use as far as getting them started it gives you instructions step by step I mean it's pretty simple place the pads on push this button and then do this well do you know where the closest AED is from here right now mhm where it's right in the hallway yeah 2 minutes later um ala uh ambulance showed up and took over and they worked on me for 35 minutes um nonstop trying to get me back
• 12:30 - 13:00 and finally after 35 minutes they were able to stabilize me well enough to transport me to Mercy Hospital in Rapids I think I was shocked like 10 times total between the house and the hospital unzip that open it up you can see with this one this particular brand it's real easy obviously what do we want to do we want to pull okay once you pull it it automatically starts the prom removing all clothing from the patient chest cut clothing if needed now you can
• 13:00 - 13:30 see the pads are inside this particular one the pictures on the white pads pict on each one from the yellow plastic liner that identifies exactly where it's supposed to go on the chest it tells you to keep your hands off it's going to analyze and look for that very specific Rhythm no one should touch the patient shock advised stay clear of patient press the flashing orange button now so basically it prompts you right
• 13:30 - 14:00 with what to do now when I push the button sh delivered it delivers Emergency Medical Services have been called it is safe to touch the patient begin CPR once you have it on and open the voice prompts will take you right through it I have a son who's 7 years old and he can use one you know he knows how to use one so if he can do it anybody can do it when you apply an AED it will interpret the Rhythm that's there it looks to see what's going on
• 14:00 - 14:30 with the heart if it finds a normal heart rhythm it will not charge in shock so there's really absolutely no way it could harm someone in fact we could take a live one apply it to any person right now who's walking talking breathing and it would do absolutely nothing paramedics uh police sheriffs uh all carry defibrillators they're now very common in major sports Arenas and sports clubs in all federal office buildings and more and more in
• 14:30 - 15:00 our schools because as we know it's rare but sometimes student athletes uh suffer from Cardiac Arrest we know that every additional minute that goes by before you defibrillate somebody with the defibrillator who should be defibrillated survival rate drops by another 10% so at 10 minutes out survival rate's close to zero so that's why we want to get there within 3 to 5 minutes with the defibrillator the AED like American Heart Association recommends but Al also to start CPR
• 15:00 - 15:30 immediately after you call 911 so we keep blood and oxygen flowing to the vital organs which can keep that person hopefully alive and improve their survival rate when help comes once as soon as someone gets there with an AED we're going to go ahead and apply the AED get that going and as soon as the AED either delivers a shock or does not deliver a shock we want to go right back to CPR that even if you restart the heart patients often don't survive because the heart is still quite weak so
• 15:30 - 16:00 one of the new recommendations and the guidelines that we practice is don't even look to see whether you were successful after you gave that jolt immediately start doing chest compressions again for another minute and a half to 2 minutes they've got new Rescue devices like the rescue pod to help uh promote better circulation during CPR when you take a very deep breath or a sigh or when somebody takes their last gasp they create a greater vacuum inside their
• 16:00 - 16:30 thorax which brings more blood back to the heart which lowers the pressures in the brain so when the heart beats the next time you get more blood flow this little device we call the uh rescue pod and the way this works is it harnesses the vacuum inside the chest so once you push down on the chest the pressures go up and during standard CPR when you let go there's a little tiny vacuum that develops and rather than have air rush into the
• 16:30 - 17:00 lungs this impedes that and that draws more blood back to the heart and the next time you push down the heart's filled and you instantaneously double blood flow to the heart and the Brain this is a booster this is like a booster on a rocket or a booster on a car this turbocharges CPR some ambulances are also using the Lucas device which is like an automatic CPR Lucas device is a mechanical chest compression device so
• 17:00 - 17:30 it takes the manual labor out of out of CPR we no longer have to use humans to do it which is the hardest part of of cardiopulmonary resuscitation doing CPR on a on a person is is a lot of work the American Heart Association standards require us to do 2in depth 100 times a minute it's really hard and really fast uh this device takes the manual labor out of it uh when I teach CPR class I make all my students do it for those 2 minutes and they are sweating profusely afterwards we are better able to transport our patients if we needed to
• 17:30 - 18:00 do it uh with CPR doing manual CPR in the back of a moving ambulance is very dangerous biggest difference in using this equipment is how your scene is just much more quieter and manageable and you're really able to Think Through Your protocols better you don't have to worry about the quality of chest compressions which is the most important part of a cardiac arrest State for the patient it really uh has given our clinicians a sense of confidence that we are going to get this patient
• 18:00 - 18:30 back so we have the public awareness by Stander CPR piece we have the First Responders we have the advanced life support responders and then the final piece of the puzzle is what do we do after we get somebody back traditionally those patients are thought to be people who wouldn't survive and so they were often taken to the hospital to die but we turned St Cloud Hospital into a level one Cardiac Arrest resuscitation Center
• 18:30 - 19:00 similarly Mercy Medical Center where we're seated right now is a level one Cardiac Arrest resuscitation Center and that means when patients get to the door the cardiologists and the Intensive caring ad docs are alerted immediately and cooling therapy is started as soon as possible and if the patients meet qualifications for going to the cardiio calization laboratory they are brought to the card cation laboratory where their blocked arteries are opened 1 2 3 all right are you still having some
• 19:00 - 19:30 chest pain a little bit and so we get people in here uh they've been resuscitated in the field with CPR or a shock and they get into the cath lab here catheters are put into the femoral artery run up into the heart and we start taking pictures we inject dye through these catheters and the images come up on this screen right behind me and you can see right away what's going on there's a there's a blockage in this artery so then you thread a wire through that clot and and then you smush it to the side and restore flow often times
• 19:30 - 20:00 we'll leave a stent behind too a little metal coil that stays in place if the patient had had Cardiac Arrest now we've got we have to work on preserving the brain this person's got brain injury because they haven't had enough blood flow to the brain what happens there is the brain starts to swell now you need to chill everything down just like You' put ice on a sprained ankle when we we found that when you chill the body you preserve the internal organs we Preserve the critical parts and so by putting um
• 20:00 - 20:30 sleeves and and blankets around the patient that have cooling fluid flowing through it we can chill the body down to 90° typically 98.6 is healthy well if you chill them down to 90 and leave them there for a couple 3 days remarkable things have happened we've seen amazing saves people that have been out and there's looks like no neurologic function at all and they come back it's just dramatic as it's really exciting for years we've been cooling the Heart
• 20:30 - 21:00 during open heart surgery it's part of cardioplegia it's called where you you save the Heart during surgery you allow you buy yourself some time where the heart's not beating as vigorously as you'd like so you cool it down cool it down and so over the years the idea came well it's got to be good to for the brain to just chill out take some time to to prevent the swelling and to slow down the metabolism in the brain they put these they look like bike shorts on you and they fill them with cool water
• 21:00 - 21:30 and they cool your body down to 91° F they cool you down and keep you cool for 18 to 24 hours and then they slowly start to warm you back up and they're finding that you know I mean for me to walk away with virtually no brain Dam I mean really no brain damage that we know of that's a wonderful thing we've had nurses and paramedics who have had tattooed across their chest do not resuscitate because previously people did really poorly but
• 21:30 - 22:00 there has really been a transformation if not a revolution in this space we have the educational piece and we have our basic life support piece and we have our Advanced life support piece well the technology now including the rescue pod is so helpful in some circumstances in helping to bring more blood flow to the brain that people are actually waking up but we can't get their hearts restarted because of the blockage that caused the cardiac arrest and the the first place and it just because you have your stent
• 22:00 - 22:30 and you're doing fine you've got your cholesterol under control your blood pressure under control you quit smoking doesn't mean you're out of the woods I'm afraid if you've got a big heart attack where more than half of the heart's involved your risk of this happening to you Cardiac Arrest is high enough that we've actually come to put defibrillators into people even though they've never had Cardiac Arrest the ICD the implantable cardiac defibrillator is is another amazing technology that's come along in the last again since the
• 22:30 - 23:00 late ' 80s um this is a small device that gets PL implanted surgically and you wear it under your skin of the upper left chest or could be the right side and it's there to be an insurance policy it doesn't make your heart any better or worse but if you do have a cardiac arrest event where your heart goes into a rapid dangerous Rhythm it'll shock you out of it within 10 or 11 seconds so I tell my patients it's like having a paramedic in your pocket so that it's always watching
• 23:00 - 23:30 it measures every single heartbeat you have and if if you start having them very close together it's going to interpret that as a problem give you about 2 and 1 half 3 seconds and say okay there's an issue charges its capacitors that takes another few seconds and if you're still in trouble after that seven or eight or 10 seconds Wham it hits you really hard in the chest it hurts but it's it's better than the alternative for patients having heart attack which is a blockage in one of the
• 23:30 - 24:00 arteries feeding blood and oxygen to the heart muscle we can now diagnose this in the ambulance with the 12 Le EKG technology which we didn't have even 10 years ago so previously paramedics would come to your house you're having chest pain you're short of breath you know maybe you were having the big one maybe you weren't but now we can actually diagnose this diagnose this in the field and alert the hospital they can rally their troops and all their experts and the and pull in the cath lab team the the the technology to do all this is is
• 24:00 - 24:30 really all about speed get the artery open save the brain save the heart it's all very fast and these tools that you see around me these are the things that enable that kind of speed out in the hall are racks and racks of catheters that we can reach to and use as a diff as a tool is required to open up these arteries we're seeing more and more people get cooled more and more people getting these devices used and more people surviving and that's a one wonderful thing because before five of
• 24:30 - 25:00 us survived 5% of us survived you know now the it's starting to be 7% 9% and I just see that that number just increasing and getting better we need everybody from the high school student to the elementary student to the parents to the teachers to people who work in factories to everybody in the community to be tuned in enough so that when somebody Falls they know what to do and then once the system is put into place
• 25:00 - 25:30 the professionals can come in and take over but it's so key to have bystanders actually start CPR what we're trying to do with take art America is simultaneously Implement all these new different treatment strategies and raise that survival rate from an average of 5% in most communities and get it as high as 20 or even 30% and save more lives the new CPR the rescue pod the device the early AED access the cooling um you know the Lucas device all those things
• 25:30 - 26:00 that are being used now in conjunction that's why I'm here they used all those things on me and I truly believe that's why I'm here you know the rescue pod made the CPR more efficient they were able to do CPR on me a lot longer than they do on most people it's given me a chance it's given me two more years with my husband two more years with my kids I mean otherwise I wouldn't be here right [Music] now
• 26:00 - 26:30 [Music] no fear CPR take action save lives is a co-production of align health system and tpt's Minnesota Channel funding has been
• 26:30 - 27:00 provided by Mercy and unity hospitals Foundation