A 45-year-old man goes into sudden cardiac arrest while grocery shopping.
The ambulance takes about 10 minutes to arrive.
On the ride to the emergency room, the man’s brain reaches a vegetative state.
“I see it all the time,” cardiologist Dr. Shamim Badruddin-Mawji said. “There is not much we can do (after that).”
About 10 percent of more than 300,000 people in the country who suffer a sudden cardiac arrest outside a hospital survive, according to the American Heart Association’s annual statistics report.
The Corpus Christi ISD, fire department emergency responders and community health care providers are working to increase the survival chances for people the statistical odds are against, Badruddin-Mawji said.
The group began administering CPR training to high school seniors this month to double or triple the chances for those people, she added.
“It just takes guts and knowledge to save a life,” Badruddin-Mawji said.
Source: Beatriz Alvarado – Caller-Times
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