World Restart a Heart Day 2019
On October 16, we will be celebrating World Restart a Heart Day, a global initiative to increase awareness about the importance of bystander CPR. Each year, more than 350,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests occur in the United States. Yet, only about 46 percent of people who suffer from cardiac arrest receive CPR from a bystander. This is a statistic we need to improve so that all people who experience an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest get bystander help before emergency resp