If your heart stops (cardiac arrest) you die 7-10% per minute according to this American Heart Association article provided to me by Greg Ball. PAD_WorkingAgainstTime

Greg is an Oakland Township Firefighter/Paramedic (he does it all!) and our EMS Coordinator. Our ambulance or any ambulance anywhere, likely can’t get there fast enough to save you.

So you need to learn CPR / AED.  Conveniently, the Oakland Township Fire Department has classes.  The next one is February 17. Call 1-586-752 and say you are interested in CPR classes or see the email sign up info and full schedule at this link: http://www.oaklandtownship.org/township_departments/fire_department/index.php

 

Even responding as fast as Oakland County 90% standards of 6 minutes for urban areas or 8 minutes for rural will likely not save you if your heart stops completely – cardiac arrest. When you add the 1-1/2 to 2 minutes it took the 911 dispatch center to understand your call and notify the fire department, you are up to 7-1/2 to 9-1/2 minutes from the time of your call to when the ambulance arrives in your driveway. Oakland Township response is at something more like 14 minutes from time of call.  A person in cardiac arrest needs citizens who can administer CPR and run today’s inexpensive and easy to use AED’s to administer a shock to restart his/her heart.

Sign up for the course. Call 1-586-752 and say you are interested in CPR classes.