LAS VEGAS (KSNV & MyNews3) — Some local experts are teaching people how to save lives Wednesday.
News 3’s Denise Rosch was downtown as tourists and locals were pulled off the street for a mass CPR training session.
This is the American Heart Association’s hands only CPR training.
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A free, 15-minute session designed to teach as many people as possible the simple technique of proper chest compressions.
Melanie Baldwin is living proof, it works. In June her husband performed CPR on her when she collapsed, in full cardiac arrest. Now she’s helping spread the word that the life you save could be someone you love.
“My husband was my traumatized than I was, because you want to be able to help, you don’t want to feel helpless,” Baldwin said.
According to the American Heart Association, 90 percent of sudden cardiac arrest victims die before reaching the hospital.
But immediate CPR can double or even triple a victim’s chance of survival. Exactly what this event is all about.
The goal was to teach 1,000 people this simple procedure in the next five days and ask them, to turn around and teach someone else.
There is also an app for this.
“Your phone will send you an alert you’re within 200 yards of where somebody needs CPR,” said Chief Wille McDonald of Las Vegas Fire.
It’s called Pulse point and is free through iTunes. Las Vegas Fire Chief Willie McDonald says you can monitor fire calls right from your smartphone.
