Let’s Save a Life Specific Purpose:To inform my audience the steps and procedures on how to perform first aid and CPR. Central Idea: First aid and CPR are instrumental in life-threatening emergencies. Bystanders and first responders are crucial to the emergency situation. Method of Organization:Chronological Introduction No one ever hopes that they are around during an emergency situation. However, it happens. Anyone can learn CPR – and everyone should! Sadly, 70 percent of Americans may feel helpless to act during a cardiac emergency because they either do not know how to administer CPR or their training has significantly lapsed.
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This alarming statistic could hit close to home, because home is exactly where 88 percent of cardiac arrests occur. Put very simply: The life you save with CPR is mostly likely to be someone you love. This is a very hard statistic to grasp. We all rely on paramedics, EMTs and hospitals to save lives. However, most emergencies happen in the community or, even harder to grasp, in our homes. More specifically, 4 out of 5 cardiac arrests occur outside of a hospital. An even bigger statistic that could hit home is 383,000 cardiac arrests occur annually. A false assumption is that people go into cardiac arrest because of a heart attack.
Most sudden cardiac arrests are due to abnormal impulses in the heart. These impulses can be corrected if caught fast enough. Failure to act quickly can lead to unnecessary death. Effective bystander CPR can double or triple a victim’s chance of survival, but only 32% of cardiac arrest victims get CPR from a bystander. Sadly, less than 8% of people who suffer cardiac arrest outside the hospital survive. I have witnessed one of these 8% miracles. I am a paramedic and responded to the scene of a “nonbreather. ” This means someone is not breathing. Upon our arrival, I found a female patient laying on the ground unconscious and not breathing.
However, her husband was performing CPR. We regained a pulse and transferred her to the hospital. I met this same lady two weeks later as she walked in our department to thank us for our service, thanking us for saving her life. I looked her spouse and said HE is the reason you are alive. Today, I would like to demonstrate some simple steps that could potentially save YOUR loved ones. Body I. All the materials needed for CPR/First Aid instruction should be gathered. A. Formal CPR classes offer mannequins, which simulate a victim in which you can practice your skills.
In this demonstration, you can use a pillow or similar object. B. To demonstrate first aid, you will need a long, sturdy object such as a piece of wood or cardboard. You will also need gauze or some even some towels. II. The demonstration will be broken down into three areas. A. How to recognize a true emergency. B. How to perform first aid in the event of bleeding control or other specific emergencies. C. How to recognize if a victim will need CPR. D. How to perform CPR. III. CPR will be the main focus. This procedure can be broken down into three steps, with the pneumonic CAB. A. C = compressions B. A = Airway
C. B = Breathing Conclusion Watching a family member or someone that you may know collapse due to sudden cardiac arrest is hard to comprehend or think about. What’s even harder to think about is knowing you could have done something to save their life and you didn’t. I hope that this demonstration will provide you with some knowledge that if that horrific situation should occur around you, that you can potentially make a difference. If you or someone you know is interested in being certified in CPR or first aid, check with your local fire department, life squad or hospital for some dates of open certification.
Also, you can check out www. heart. org to find certification classes near you. Works Cited * “CPR Statistics. ” American heart association. June 2011. Accessed Feb 2013. www. heart. org * American Heart Association. Heartsaver First Aid CPR AED. United States: First American Heart Association Printing, March 2011. * “Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation. ” Wikipedia. February 27, 2013. Accessed Feb 2013. http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Cardiopulmonary_resuscitation
