Detecting the symptoms of a cardiac arrest, calling the ambulance service, massaging or using a defibrillator are not practices mastered by the French.
However, these basic actions could save 32% of victims according to the association, against 5% otherwise.
The French do not have the right reflexes. Only 44% of us would be able to act in the event of an accident, underlines the Red Cross. Less than 50% of French people have the reflex to call 15 in the event of a heart attack and only 17% are introduced to first aid and the use of a defibrillator.
To assess the reactions of French people to this emergency situation, the French Federation of Cardiology has posted a test available on the website. www.savezvoussauver.org. It will allow Internet users to assess their reactions to heart failure and to train in life-saving actions.
Cardiac arrest: we analyze the situation
Before performing survival procedures, it is necessary to determine if the person who has just fallen suddenly in front of you is in cardiac arrest.
If the subject is unconscious (he does not answer your questions, he does not respond to simple requests such as “shake hands”) and is no longer breathing (his abdomen does not move, you do not feel his breath) , he is in cardiac arrest. Once the situation is understood, call the SAMU (15), locate yourself, and never hang up without the authorization of your interlocutor. This simple gesture could save a life.
Save lives
200 people die every day from cardiac arrest in France where the survival rate is 3%. A person in cardiac arrest loses 10% chance of survival for every minute that passes. And most lives could be avoided by knowing what to do in an emergency. According to Inserm (National Institute for Health and Medical Research), if 30% of the population were trained, 5,000 people would be saved per year. The survival rate in France is 2 to 4%, when it is 20 to 50% in Anglo-Saxon countries where the population is more widely trained and where the automatic external defibrillator (AED) is more widely used.
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