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Learn how to save a life in an afternoon
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Community Centre on Mill Street in Vankleek Hill. In Canada more than 45,000 heart attack incidents occur each year, most of them at home or in a public place. In Ontario alone about 7000 heart attacks take place away from a hospital. Studies show that a person’s survival chance in a heart attack case drops by seven to 10 per cent for every minute that goes by after a cardiac arrest. Applying CPR or using a defibrillator during the first few minutes can improve a heart attack victim’s chance of recovery by 75 per cent. During the past several years the United Counties of Prescott-Russell (UCPR) and its member communities have been installing easy-to-use public access defibrillators (PADs) in local arenas and other public buildings. Local paramedics would like to see as many people as possible familiar with how to use a PAD and also know how to apply CPR until an ambulance arrives to take a heart attack victim to the hospital. “We hope as many people as possible can attend this free CPR training clinic,” stated Sabrina Rodrigue, Prescott-Russell Emergency Services project coordinator. “Statistics indicate, and I know from my own experience on the job, that CPR and PADs can make the difference between life and death. The more people in our community with these life-saving skills, the more lives may be saved.” Participants in the afternoon training sessions will receive free one of the foundation’s CPR Anytime Family and Friends kit, valued at $40, and a CPR par-
ticipation card. The workshop sessions are open to all interested residents in the Prescott-Russell region.
To register for one of the training ses- sions phone 613-673-5139, extension 226 or go online to www.prescott-russell.on.ca.
How many people know what to do when someone has a heart attack? Anyone who has a Saturday afternoon to spare can learn how to save a life. The Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario and Prescott-Russell Emergency Services would like to help people even the odds of saving a life. They are co-hosting a series of free afternoon workshops for training demonstrations of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and how to use a pu- blic access defibrillator (PAD). “The Heart and Stroke Foundation ur- ges all Canadians to learn CPR,” stated Micheline Turnau, the foundation’s community mission specialist, in a press release. “The more people trained, the greater the chance of keeping a person who is experiencing cardiac arrest alive until an ambulance arrives. You don’t need to be a doctor to help save a life.” The three-hour afternoon CPR sessions are all scheduled for 1 to 4 p.m. on a Saturday in February and March, starting Feb. 4 in Rockland at the town hall on Laurier Street. The next is Feb. 18 in the community centre at the Robert Hartley Sports Complex on Cartier Boulevard in Hawkesbury, followed a week later in Plantagenet at the Main Street Community Centre on Feb. 25. The last sessions are March 3 in Em- brun at the Community Centre on Blais Street, March 24 in Casselman at the Paul- Émile Levesque Centre on Brébeuf Street, and March 31 at the Vankleek Hill
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