About 350,000 cardiac arrests occur outside of the hospital every year and 90% of them are fatal. Early intervention can increase survival.
Here's your primer to keep it from happening to you.
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The way Paul Niles sees it, his decision to go truck shopping set off a miraculous chain of events that saved his life.
Take to heart this warning if you have any heart attack risk factors or symptoms. Really.
Learn CPR so you can quickly step in to perform resuscitation. You may just save a life.
Martial arts practitioner who ‘died three times’ credits his medical team and the love of his life with saving his life.
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