CU staff get CPR training
They took part in a course recently given by an instructor from the Kilcullen First Responders, who placed their defibrillator on the Credit Union building earlier this year, for public use in an emergency.
CPR is performed in an effort to manually preserve intact brain function until further measures are taken to restore spontaneous blood circulation and breathing in a person in cardiac arrest.
Studies in the US have shown that immediate CPR followed by defibrillation within 3–5 minutes of sudden cardiac arrest improves the possibility of survival. In cities such as Seattle where CPR training is widespread and defibrillation by EMS personnel follows quickly, the survival rate is about 30 percent. In cities such as New York, without those advantages, the survival rate is only 1–2 percent.
Pictured are members of Kilcullen CU with instructor Anne Bathe and Esther Kiely of Kilcullen First Responders on the left.
