Copy of CPR with Covid Awareness

Service Description

Now the rules for CPR, in a world where there's Coronavirus and COVID-19 have changed slightly because if we did normal CPR, we'd be opening the airway, we'd be checking for breathing and we'd be doing breaths as well. And this is a massive infection risk because you are then putting your mouth directly close to someone else's, so the chance of you catching a virus is near enough guaranteed, it's the perfect world for it. So UK Resus Council have changed the guidance. Now, around about 30,000 sudden cardiac arrests happen every single year in the UK alone and around about 80% of these happen in the home or around family members.