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(soft music)

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King County actually

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has one of the highest cardiac arrest
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and a big part of that is because so
many bystanders are trained in CPR.

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- I've been in situations
where I've, you know, wished

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that I knew more about CPR.

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- Have you ever come across
a situation where you ...?

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Yeah, yeah.

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A couple months ago.

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- CPR is a lifesaving skill,

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and Seattle’s ahead of the game.

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A heart attack,

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The easiest wat to put it is a circulation problem,

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and think about
cardiac arrest as an electrical problem.

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That's when we do CPR.

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They’re sudden, they can’t, they’re unconscious,

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They're unresponsive,
They’re not breathing.

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One of medic 2’s goals is removing
as many barriers as possible for people

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to learn CPR and have that critical skill
and potentially save lives.

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So we don't do pulse checks
anymore.

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But what we do is we call them out.
Hey, are you okay?

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Hey, are you okay?

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They don’t respond, I feel safe, I can,

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Hey, are you okay?

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Hey, are you okay?

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- We've taught community CPR classes here
at Seattle Fire Department headquarters

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for years,
but recently we've built this partnership

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with Seattle Parks and Recreation.

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What we want your heart to do,

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is kind of this, like boom, boom.
Boom, boom.

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That's great.

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We call that a normal sinus rhythm.

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And we love this.

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Seattle Fire reached out to us,
which was amazing, being proactive

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and just said, hey,
we have an opportunity to offer free

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CPR classes to the community.

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It just made sense to do them
in the community centers

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because these are the the binding hubs
for our neighborhoods in Seattle.

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And, this is helping us get to more people,
to underserved communities,

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to people who,
 populations who never were able to

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maybe have the,

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find the chance to learn
how to get certified, to help them.

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- It was an easy, like, ten minute
drive for me, and it looks like they're

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put on pretty much like every other week
or something like that, so ...

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My shoulders in line with the chest,

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my head over ...

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- It was easy, it was convenient,

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and it was free.

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- If you would like a CPR certification card
for any reason, it does cost $30.

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But we also offer that class for free.

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If you don't want to receive
a certification card.

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So say you just want the skills

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You can come and take the class
and not pay anything.

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We have a couple ways to find
the center of the chest.

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One way is
if you go kind of this low part.

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If evryone can do this, with two fingers.

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You see this soft part,
this soft part right here?

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Kind of under your chest,

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two fingers up,
that's where we want to do CPR.

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Not on the left side,

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right side,
right in the middle.

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We have two different options for classes.

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We do a hands on CPR class

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So you're learning basically compression,
only CPR.

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How to use an AED and then actually
performing CPR.

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- (AED machine) Place the pad firmly on skin.

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We also teach an adult child
an infant CPR certification class,

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you're learning, CPR, how to use an AED.

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- And now flip.
- This way?

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- Yes.

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- Choking intervention techniques.

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- And then
I'm going to stabilize with this hand.

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- On adult, children, and infants.

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In all of our classes, you're
going to learn about what to look out for.

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Agonal breathing is a reflex of your brain
stem, and it's a sign of death.

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but most of what it sounds like is, 

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(choking sound)

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that sort of sound.

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So if someone goes unconscious,
how to tell if they're breathing or not,

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and how to tell
if their heart is beating or not,

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and then when to step in
and actually start performing CPR.

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- You're going to do 30 compressions,
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just enough to see the chest rise.

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- Certification classes
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- For infants, we're going to start

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with two breaths.

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- Sometimes you feel intimidated doing it.

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But it seemed to go really well.

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- We got people coming in
for different reasons.

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- I'm a personal trainer,

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and so it’s a job requirement.

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I also work security in Fremont at a venue,

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And also
just for the betterment of humanity.

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- Most people I would say,
want to learn to save a life.

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Okay, clear, clear, clear.

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- No one wants to think about
this happening, but it's a possibility.

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Actually, more than 70% of out-of-hospital
cardiac arrests happen at home.

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- Besides wanting to be up to date
on everything,

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I also take care of an elderly.

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Aunt I have young children
that live next door

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that I take care of occasionally.

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So I felt I needed to know what to do.

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- You knowing what to do to step in to help
that loved one

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can be the difference between them
living or dying.

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- I work in the field
like in the wilderness sometimes.

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And so this person was, they were choking
and I had, like, wilderness first aid

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and everybody's

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kind of freaking out, you know,
if I have to step into a situation

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like that in the future,

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I think I’ll be a little bit calmer
and a little bit sure of what's going on.

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- We want to save lives.

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We want eventually the idea that,

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I know it's hard but,
everyone in Seattle can do CPR.

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That would be amazing.

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(cardiograph flatline returns to beeps)

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