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CPR Awareness Week is a reminder that bystander CPR remains one of the strongest determinants of survival in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Survival roughly doubles when CPR is initiated before EMS arrival, yet bystander CPR rates remain under 40% in most regions.

For clinicians, the week is also a prompt to think beyond our own competency: Are the people around us, family, gym staff, school personnel, colleagues outside healthcare, prepared to act in the first few minutes? Those minutes decide the outcome long before advanced care begins.
Hands-only CPR is the current AHA recommendation for untrained bystanders.

Early recognition, high-quality compressions, and rapid AED use remain the core of the chain of survival.

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