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CPR TRAINING: Idaho Falls Fire Department needs YOUR help

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IDAHO FALLS — The Idaho Falls Fire Department needs your help to bolster community awareness of CPR training.

The department is conducting a survey to see how many people in the community know CPR, and how to respond to situations where CPR is needed.

“Too often we arrive on scene and our patient was in need of CPR but no one helped,” IFFD EMS Division Chief Eric Day tells EastIdahoNews.com. “Then other times we arrive on scene to a patient receiving CPR that doesn’t need it.”

The results of the survey will help the fire department focus their efforts on training programs to teach everyday citizens.

Local emergency responders say it is estimated that only 2 to 3 percent of Americans know CPR. Nationally there are 389,000 heart attacks that happen annually and only 40 percent of those are witnessed. Of those witnessed, only 40 percent of victims received CPR by bystanders which equates to a 9 percent survival from hospital discharge.

TAKE THE SURVEY HERE

Questions on the survey relate to your knowledge of CPR and willingness or confidence to perform CPR when its needed. The survey also highlights questions about myths relating to CPR.

The 17 question survey takes less then two minutes to complete. The questions are simple and there are a lot of yes or no questions.

“We have a little over 700 completed surveys but our goal is 2000 by the end of June,” Day said. “The results of the survey will direct the fire department on future steps regarding public knowledge (about) CPR.”

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