The chance of survival of a person who has suffered a heart attack or cardiac arrest depends on effective CPR.
At any moment a person could suffer a heart attack or cardiac arrest and response time is essential to save a life. In this scenario, the ideal would be for everyone to learn to make a Cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
For this reason, more than 90 health professionals participated in the Basic Life Support / BLS course taught by three instructors certified by the AHA and belonging to the International Training Center of the simulated hospitals of the Santiago, Concepción, Valdivia and De la Patagonia headquarters of the San Sebastian University.
One of the instructors, Marcela Backit, assured that “you can only achieve a good result in CPR and save a person’s life if you are properly trained in chest compressions and rescue breathing techniques in addition to the proper use of a defibrillator”.
For its part, Carolina Sambucetti coordinator of the international training center of the American Heart Association, ensures that the course is the key to saving lives after cardiac arrest and “has been updated to reflect changes from the American Heart Association Guideline Highlights update. Basic life support skills are taught to single rescuer or teamapplicable both in health centers and in out-of-hospital settings”.
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Angelica Flowers She is a technician in Dentistry and a lightning operator in the USS Dental Clinic and says that although “I already had basic knowledge of CPR through this training I was able to learn safe techniques and I think it’s essential be able to react quickly in an emergency.”
His partner Diana Escobar expressed a similar idea and argued that this course “gives us the tools to act, regardless of whether the protocols consider other health professionals, to provide first aid. In addition, we were able to learn how a Automatic external defibrillator”.
Camila Parra, third-year Social Work student at the Concepción campuspointed out that, although it was hard to learn the rhythm, thanked the University for promoting this type of activity. “It should be replicating, because many people came to learn this for any emergency case they have in the future”, he pointed out.
