all right welcome back news for Jax
helping you live healthy we're talking
about hands only CPR it is a life-saving
technique it is quick and easy to learn
according to the American Heart
Association there are more than 350,000
out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in the
United States every single year about
90% of people die in these incidents so
your help can save a life if CPR is
performed immediately it can double or
even triple the chances of survival so
here to teach us hands-only CPR it is so
easy greta haul the AED program
coordinator for a st. Johns County Fire
and Rescue appreciate you coming in fine
you know the one thing I think that
always blows my mind is less than 50% of
people actually step in and do
hands-only CPR if they see someone is in
trouble
that's exactly right it's a lot of
people fear because they're they're
scared that they're gonna get sued or
that they're gonna do something wrong
and and basically most of us that do
education say you know it's better to do
something you know and it's very
difficult to really hurt somebody to the
point where it was better it be worse
that they got hurt with you rather than
what you did that potentially right yeah
yeah you're at this point if they're not
breathing and you know you've recognized
this condition you want to initiate some
type of care you want to initiate the
hands only CPR or or traditional CPR
whatever you know and comfortable with
you want to initiate that as fast as
well what's the first step that you need
to step in and help once you recognize
that there's somebody down you want to
make sure that they're breathing if you
look at their chest they're not
breathing you want to look here you want
to check this if they're not breathing
you want to get help get help as fast as
you can and then what's the best way to
do that you just want to like basically
put your hand over their mouth it's very
basic it's it's no more look listen feel
if you want to do that that's fine too
five times
yeah really quick if you don't see this
get help get point to somebody to call
9-1-1 if you if it's just you get you on
your phone drop it call for help
speakerphone but it all speaker then you
want you want to do is you want to come
immediately to the center of the chest
you want to put your hands in the center
of the chest and the natural nipple line
of the chest keep your elbows tight you
want to push two inches down two inches
up and you want to do that at a rate
hundred beats per minute I know stayin
alive thanks today is the song and
normally we do this on the ground right
so that would give us some right
stability absolutely you're gonna keep
your elbows tight okay you want to do
this like I said a hundred beats per
minute
the 9-1-1 dispatchers will coach you
through it right and you don't want to
stop no I mean and I mean that's the
thing with this it's not easy it I mean
not that it's easy but it's tiring I
should say Kuro as you are if there's
someone that's out there with you they
can help you absolutely you want to
switch it off as soon as you get
fatigued because the fact of the matter
is is a good quality compression is
what's important right so as soon as you
start to fatigue you want to pass it off
to somebody else that's quick I mean
you're doing it let's I'd like to see
how that because I should keep my elbow
straight your elbows then we just I mean
obviously you would then I would just
step in and I would immediately go over
and we're gonna continuously do this
either until an AED arrives on scene or
until advanced medical care comes and
ABS I mean they should be in public
places one of the things that we find
though is that not everybody ain't knows
where they are and then those are it's
another thing when they see them they're
a little intimidating right
AED czar an automatic external
defibrillator a lot of people don't know
what that acronym stands for in addition
to that a lot of people fear them they
hang on walls and places and a lot of
times I will go into classes and ask
people do you think you can hurt
somebody with one of those and usually
seventy to eighty percent of every class
I teach say yeah you can and I know you
can't grab it put it on the patient the
machines are designed for people who
don't know anything so it's going to
tell you everything from staying calm to
calling I'm a whine it talks to you yeah
and it is you if it's in the right space
it said actually tell you how to do a
compression if you don't have never done
a compression or taking a class but we
strongly encourage everybody to take a
class we offer American Heart
Association offers classes through heart
org you know a lot of areas and
organizations offer free classes or a
lot of options a lot of options if you
have a pool have kids definitely take a
class and one quick question is we
didn't clear the airway is that is that
kind of obsolete now no it's not
obsolete but in this particular
condition you know you want to initiate
hands only and that's work I can't do
traditional CPR is there like if you
know it's a choking obviously
I'm going to get into a little bit more
in depth of something else and they
would worry about clearing do something
do something is call police you know
make sure that you're getting the help
you need thank you for coming in a
problem don't be scared of it guys cuz
it certainly can save a life