Cardiopulmonary resuscitation will double chance of cardiac arrest survivor
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Chennai: Around 65 per cent of cardiac emergencies occur at home and people usually panic in these situations, as they do not know what exactly need to be done.
While calling medical help is the first step, before this arrives, performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) will double the chances of survival, says Dr Madan Mohan, consultant cardiologist of Fortis Malar Hospital. The hospital has introduced the Fortis Heart Saver initiative to conduct free CPR training workshops for people and a training session was held on Saturday.
Dr Adeline Dhivya Israel, head of the accident and emergency department and Dr Ravi Pratap, emergency medical specialist at the hospital, conducted the session. Dr Ravi said, “When there is a cardiac emergency, the first thing one should do is call for medical help and till such time, a trained person should perform CPR to manually preserve the brain function. If there is no blood supply to the brain for three minutes, it starts dying and even a second should not be wasted in the platinum hour.”
One should take charge, become the leader and point out a person to call for assistance, said Dr Israel, adding that the three signs of cardiac arrest are unconsciousness, lack of breathing and no carotid pulse.
A combination of chest compressions and rescue breaths, CPR should not be stopped until one notices that the patient starts breathing. Once the person starts breathing, he should be laid on his left side and should not be given water, said Dr Israel.
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