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Tuesday, October 20, 2015

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rtments when a simple 15 minute CPR training session could have saved their lives. He’s founded a new charity Take Heart Australia to turn that statistic around and aims to deliver CPR training to every Australian and get a defibrillator installed on every street.

Australia’s Shocking CPR Emergency

Nearly 30,000 Australians will die of cardiac arrest this year because too few bystanders have the basic CPR skills to keep them alive until an ambulance arrives.

NEWS.COM.AU

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Brent Driscoll Considering that this is a world wide phenomenon and secondly all EMS call centres in Australia, provide call taker directed CPR now in the setting of compression only CPR, why this beat up.

Considering the impact of viral community service CPR videos from the US and UK, you don't need a 15 minute course....See More

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Amanda Flower I completely agree with this movement. I think, in order to have, and renew your driver's license, you should have to take a course in CPR. I am sure, most people will never need to use that skill, but the ones that do need it will certainly be glad they know it!

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Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family and colleagues of crew manager Lee Gaunt, 41, who was discovered at 4.40am at Stalybridge fire station on Sunday morning and was pronounced dead after they were unable to revive him.