| CPR training is not new to us but formal training has | | | | of telephone advice is now standard across America. |
| only been in existence for about thirty years. But | | | | With the increasing availability of the internet CPR |
| despite it's relative youth, CPR has a very long history, | | | | providers have developed a very strong online |
| the first time it was recorded as being used was in | | | | presence. In fact if you search for CPR classes you |
| 1740 when it was recommended in the treatment of | | | | will be faced with plenty of options including those that |
| drowning victims by the Parisians. | | | | promise CPR certification at the click of a mouse. |
| It took a long time to become central to the medical | | | | Some of these courses may be fantastic but in reality |
| treatment of casualties. It wasn't introduced by the | | | | you are wasting your money unless the course is |
| American military until 1957. Eventually in 1960 the | | | | accredited by the Red Cross or the American Heart |
| American Heart Association launched a program | | | | Association. Both of these organizations provide |
| designed to train doctors and other medical personnel | | | | training and may be willing to come to your school or |
| in the use of cardiac pulmonary resuscitation. It wasn't | | | | office building if you can generate sufficient interest. |
| until the late 1960's that the process of how to do | | | | Studies have shown that the earlier cardiac pulmonary |
| CPR was formalized. | | | | resuscitation is applied the more likely a cardiac arrest |
| Training for the general public began in the 1970's but it | | | | victim is likely to survive. With current survival rates |
| wasn't until the 1980's that emergency services started | | | | being less than 10% unless your heart stops while you |
| to deliver CPR instructions over the phone to people | | | | are in hospital you are very unlikely to survive your |
| trying to help the victim of a cardiac arrest while | | | | heart stopping. If more people had their CPR |
| waiting for the emergency services to arrive. This type | | | | certification this statistic would improve considerably. |