Abstract
“All citizens of the world can save a life”. With these words, the International Liaison
Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) is launching the first global initiative – World
Restart a Heart (WRAH) – to increase public awareness and therefore the rates of bystander
cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) for victims of cardiac arrest. In most of the
cases, it takes too long for the emergency services to arrive on scene after the victim’s
collapse. Thus, the most effective way to increase survival and favourable outcome
in cardiac arrest by two- to fourfold is early CPR by lay bystanders and by “first
responders”. Lay bystander resuscitation rates, however, differ significantly across
the world, ranging from 5 to 80%. If all countries could have high lay bystander resuscitation
rates, this would help to save hundreds of thousands of lives every year. In order
to achieve this goal, all seven ILCOR councils have agreed to participate in WRAH
2018. Besides schoolchildren education in CPR (“KIDS SAVE LIVES”), many other initiatives
have already been developed in different parts of the world. ILCOR is keen for the
WRAH initiative to be as inclusive as possible, and that it should happen every year
on 16 October or as close to that day as possible. Besides recommending CPR training
for children and adults, it is hoped that a unified global message will enable our
policy makers to take action to address the inequalities in patient survival around
the world.
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: April 18, 2018
Accepted:
April 14,
2018
Received:
April 11,
2018
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