More than 30,000 cardiac arrests occur outside of a hospital each year, with around 80% happening in a place of residence – meaning that the first responder will very likely be a friend or family member. If you have an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in the UK, you have a less than 1 in 10 chance of surviving – and only 1 in 20 people that have a cardiac arrest survive to go home from hospital.
An overwhelming majority of Brits (96%) believe that life-saving training should be provided at regular intervals in a person’s life, with a fifth (22%) saying this should be as frequently as a few times each year. Health &=and wellbeing brand, Beurer, who commissioned the research, are looking to take the guesswork out of saving a life and ensure that every person – regardless of CPR training – can feel empowered to do so.
Beurer has just launched LifePad – the first medically certified resuscitation aid that consumers can buy. The research found that 52% of consumers surveyed wouldn’t be confident to perform CPR in an emergency.
