Immediate Response with Compression Only CPR

Thursday the Red Cross launched its 18 month Project Prepare campaign.

The Red Cross offered compression only CPR classes at the Campus Center on the OUZ/Zane State Campus. This version of CPR is designed to get a first response to maintain someone until emergency responders can arrive on scene.

“They do think that the first initial person on the scene starts something,” community disaster educator, Martha Staley said. “We don’t want to lose those three or four valuable minutes right in the beginning so if those minutes aren’t lost, hopefully they have that more of a chance of survival.”

Getting immediate help to someone experiencing a heart related attack can increase their chance of survival by up to 75 percent. The class Thursday took about a half hour to explain the procedure of compression only CPR.

“This takes very little training where you can just do compressions only, keeping the blood flowing through the heart or to the brain, things like that. It’s a real simple procedure.”

Project Prepare aims to educate people on many life saving techniques to learn more you can contact the red cross at (740) 452-2731.