Getting You, Your Club & Community Medical Emergency Ready
Are you, your club or community medical emergency ready enough to confidentially save a life?
In this webinar Don & Hutch share their life threatening story and discuss some simple steps and actions on how you, your club and community can be better prepared to help save a life during a medical emergency.
Topics Covered:
1. What we learnt after being dead for 18 minutes
2. Heart stopping stats and facts
3. What to do in a medical emergency situation - DRSABCD
4. CPRfriendly.org resources
5. What you, your club and community can do to help save a life.
What I learnt after being dead for 19 minutes
In 2018 one of our fellow pickleballers, fit and healthy Ian ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson (from the Northern Beaches of Sydney) had a sudden cardiac arrest while bike riding with his mate, Don MacKee. Hutch was clinically dead for 19 long minutes.
But thanks to some quick thinking by Don and the help of some bystanders, 000 was called, CPR commenced, and Hutch became one of the very lucky 9% to survive a sudden cardiac arrest. Here’s their story on Ch 7 Sunrise
Helping Save More Lives
As a result, Don & Hutch founded CPRfriendly.org in memory of, and on behalf of, the 91% less fortunate that don’t survive, with the aim of helping others to get a second chance at life. CPRfriendly.org is a free resource to help save more lives by helping anyone anywhere get ‘CPR friendly’ in minutes, and inspiring clubs and communities to get more heart smart.
Heart Stopping Facts
· 25,000 sudden cardiac arrest deaths each year in Australia - that’s one every 20 minutes
· Early 60’s is the average age of a sudden cardiac arrest - the average age of a pickleballer
· 9% of people survive an out-of-hospital sudden cardiac arrest
· 80% of cardiac arrests happen in the presence of family and friends
· 70% of bystanders feel helpless and don’t know how to effectively do CPR
· While 99% of Australians believe CPR is a critical life skill, only 26% are CPR friendly
· Every 60 seconds that CPR is not administered reduces the chances of survival by 10%.
So that’s why now, more than ever before, being trained in CPR is such a vital life skill.
In An Emergency Situation Would You Know What To Do?
Learn the vital life-saving skills of CPR and how to use a defibrillator in minutes. For free 15 second through to 45 minute training, go to CPRfriendly.org
Get CPR Friendly Today, In Minutes
What You and Your Pickleball Club Can Do?
1. Create a Medical Emergencies page on your state / club website. Here is an example from Pickleball NSW and Avalon Beach Pickleball Association.
2. Email all members and encourage them to go to your club medical emergencies page and/or view CPRfriendly.org fun CPR training videos.
3. Run a CPR friendly club educational event and/or fundraiser using this CPR event resources kit and CPR friendly fun training videos. Why not make it a fundraiser to get your own club defibrillator.
4. Consider getting a defibrillator (AED) for your club and/or make members aware of the closest AED’s to your club playing venues. Here’s a pickleball club example
For more information go to: CPRfriendly.org