NFL player Damar Hamlin's on-field collapse during Monday Night Football highlights how important it is to know CPR, doctors said.
CPR can be the difference between life and death for someone in cardiac arrest, which is why doctors encourage all people to get trained to perform it., which is why it's so important everyone know how to perform it.
"A few exchanges of conversation and playing basketball and I fell back and hit the floor," he recalled.An off-duty Chicago police officer who was playing with Harris immediately performed CPR for 10 minutes. The procedure revived him, and he was rushed to Advocate Trinity Hospital. "In the real world, usually there are not medical professionals, I think it's important for most laymen to learn CPR at least the basics," Everett said.
To perform CPR, you should interlock one hand on top of the other. Compressions should be two and a half inches deep into the chest; you don't want to bend your arms but rather put the weight of your whole body to compress the heart.
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