Arlington County Government, VA Most Recent, 12 Jun 2019

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From YouTube: Hands2Hearts CPR Rescue Event

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On June 7 2019 a ceremony was held at Yorktown High School to bring awareness of Arlington County'‘s Hands2Hearts program developed with the Virginia Hospital Center and Arlington County Fire Department.

Links to more information:

Sudden death in young people: Heart problems often blamed https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/sudden-cardiac-arrest/in-depth/sudden-death/art-20047571

American Heart Association Fact Sheet https://cpr.heart.org/idc/groups/ahaecc-public/@wcm/@ecc/documents/downloadable/ucm_502250.pdf

Hands2Hearts Webpage https://fire.arlingtonva.us/community-services/cpr/

A

Good afternoon everybody thank you for being here. We are here to talk about hands to hearts, which is in Arlington County initiative between the hospital Virginia, Hospital Center and our partners at Arlington, County, Fire and EMS. We are here also for a more important reason, because hands to heart saves lives and we have a hands to heart story for everyone today and Ben is here with us because of hands to hearts and bystander CPR. So I just want to give Ben a round of applause for being brave enough to share his story.

B

So it started out, it was a Friday. It was a typical school day. My son got up, he made himself some breakfast, he went off to school and then about a half an hour later, I get a call from the school. That said, you know your son has collapsed. We think he has had had a seizure. You need to get to the hospital immediately and as.

A

A result of this collapse, people came to his aid at the school at the county level, from the emergency first responders and dispatchers Arlington County Fire and EMS, the SROs that are employed by Arlington County police and was transported to Virginia Hospital center and I.

B

Have to tell you the only thing that went through my mind was like it was their school shooting because you know why else would would my son have collapsed? My son is perfectly healthy. He has no health issues and so you know I rushed to the hospital and you know they're there. My son was at the Virginia Hospital center and his.

A

Life was saved as a result of that hands to hearts and bystander CPR and.

B

What I did find out, which was you know, as a parent, just sends my heart racing every time I think about it is only 1 in 10 people survived one in 10, I mean my kid was a really lucky kid and I am had this happened when he was walking to school. If it had happened on the bus, if it had happened, you know kind of in another instance. He may not have survived so.

C

The American Heart Association recognized that in 2015 only about 42% of people were receiving by seing her CPR when they had a cardiac arrest outside the hospital. So they said of goal of doubling that number of 42 percent by 2020. So in order to accomplish that, they've started promoting community CPR programs, so.

B

The hands to heart, I went to Wakefield and watched them. Do this program. I was so impressed. They I think they told me they got about a 850 students and staff trained within two days. The.

C

Arlington County Fire Department, along with Virginia Hospital Center, recognized the significant impact of bystanders starting recognizing cardiac arrest and initiating hands-only CPR, so we jumped on board and we started hands to hearts. Arlington.

B

County has amazing emergency rescue people, I love them. You know, I I just wish I could hug every single one of them because they saved my kid's life and.

C

Then it's an effort to get the community to be able to recognize cardiac arrests, call for help and start compressing the chest record the three C's so check for responsiveness, if so, unresponsive not breathing, normally or not. Breathing, you want to call for help when I, when one send somebody to get an ad and the third C is compress the chest which is just hands only compressions, no ventilations or rescue breathing is required. It's very simple.