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"text": "(soft music)\n(cardiograph beeps)\n(cardiograph flatline)\nKing County actually\nhas one of the highest cardiac arrest survival rates in the entire world,\nand a big part of that is because so many bystanders are trained in CPR.\n- I've been in situations where I've, you know, wished\nthat I knew more about CPR.\n- Have you ever come across a situation where you ...?\nYeah, yeah.\nA couple months ago.\n- CPR is a lifesaving skill,\nand Seattle’s ahead of the game.\nA heart attack,\nThe easiest wat to put it is a circulation problem,\nand think about cardiac arrest as an electrical problem.\nThat's when we do CPR.\nThey’re sudden, they can’t, they’re unconscious,\nThey're unresponsive, They’re not breathing.\nOne of medic 2’s goals is removing as many barriers as possible for people\nto learn CPR and have that critical skill and potentially save lives.\nSo we don't do pulse checks anymore.\nBut what we do is we call them out. Hey, are you okay?\nHey, are you okay?\nThey don’t respond, I feel safe, I can,\nHey, are you okay?\nHey, are you okay?\n- We've taught community CPR classes here at Seattle Fire Department headquarters\nfor years, but recently we've built this partnership\nwith Seattle Parks and Recreation.\nWhat we want your heart to do,\nis kind of this, like boom, boom. Boom, boom.\nThat's great.\nWe call that a normal sinus rhythm.\nAnd we love this.\nSeattle Fire reached out to us, which was amazing, being proactive\nand just said, hey, we have an opportunity to offer free\nCPR classes to the community.\nIt just made sense to do them in the community centers\nbecause these are the the binding hubs for our neighborhoods in Seattle.\nAnd, this is helping us get to more people, to underserved communities,\nto people who, populations who never were able to\nmaybe have the,\nfind the chance to learn how to get certified, to help them.\n- It was an easy, like, ten minute drive for me, and it looks like they're\nput on pretty much like every other week or something like that, so ...\nMy shoulders in line with the chest,\nmy head over ...\n- It was easy, it was convenient,\nand it was free.\n- If you would like a CPR certification card for any reason, it does cost $30.\nBut we also offer that class for free.\nIf you don't want to receive a certification card.\nSo say you just want the skills\nYou can come and take the class and not pay anything.\nWe have a couple ways to find the center of the chest.\nOne way is if you go kind of this low part.\nIf evryone can do this, with two fingers.\nYou see this soft part, this soft part right here?\nKind of under your chest,\ntwo fingers up, that's where we want to do CPR.\nNot on the left side,\nright side, right in the middle.\nWe have two different options for classes.\nWe do a hands on CPR class\nSo you're learning basically compression, only CPR.\nHow to use an AED and then actually performing CPR.\n- (AED machine) Place the pad firmly on skin.\nWe also teach an adult child an infant CPR certification class,\nyou're learning, CPR, how to use an AED.\n- And now flip. - This way?\n- Yes.\n- Choking intervention techniques.\n- And then I'm going to stabilize with this hand.\n- On adult, children, and infants.\nIn all of our classes, you're going to learn about what to look out for.\nAgonal breathing is a reflex of your brain stem, and it's a sign of death.\nAnd so it can sound like a couple different things,\nbut most of what it sounds like is,\n(choking sound)\nthat sort of sound.\nSo if someone goes unconscious, how to tell if they're breathing or not,\nand how to tell if their heart is beating or not,\nand then when to step in and actually start performing CPR.\n- You're going to do 30 compressions, 2 breaths,\njust enough to see the chest rise.\n- Certification classes also include rescue breaths.\n- For infants, we're going to start\nwith two breaths.\n- Sometimes you feel intimidated doing it.\nBut it seemed to go really well.\n- We got people coming in for different reasons.\n- I'm a personal trainer,\nand so it’s a job requirement.\nI also work security in Fremont at a venue,\nAnd also just for the betterment of humanity.\n- Most people I would say, want to learn to save a life.\nOkay, clear, clear, clear.\n- No one wants to think about this happening, but it's a possibility.\nActually, more than 70% of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests happen at home.\n- Besides wanting to be up to date on everything,\nI also take care of an elderly.\nAunt I have young children that live next door\nthat I take care of occasionally.\nSo I felt I needed to know what to do.\n- You knowing what to do to step in to help that loved one\ncan be the difference between them living or dying.\n- I work in the field like in the wilderness sometimes.\nAnd so this person was, they were choking and I had, like, wilderness first aid\nand everybody's\nkind of freaking out, you know, if I have to step into a situation\nlike that in the future,\nI think I’ll be a little bit calmer and a little bit sure of what's going on.\n- We want to save lives.\nWe want eventually the idea that,\nI know it's hard but, everyone in Seattle can do CPR.\nThat would be amazing.\n(cardiograph flatline returns to beeps)\nWatch CityStream, Tuesday nights at 7pm\non the Seattle Channel, or find us anytime online at\nSeattleChannel.org"
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