If there’s a CPR training certification class near you, an expert in the field advises you to take it. Susie Sweetman teaches a CPR and First Aid class at OSF HealthCare Saint Anthony’s in Alton and says whether you are just learning CPR, or this will be a refresher course, it’s important to be comfortable knowing how to do it.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website, about 9 in 10 people who have cardiac arrest outside a hospital do not survive. But CPR can help improve those odds. If performed within the first few minutes, CPR can double or triple a person’s chance of survival.
