This is highlighted by a Danish study published on Jama Network. Early training at the center of Viva! The week for cardiopulmonary resuscitation, organized by the Italian Resuscitation Council (IRC) from 16 to 22 October to raise awareness on the topic
Making the teaching of cardiopulmonary resuscitation mandatory (since 2006) for obtaining a driving license and for enrolling in professional courses has led to an increase in cardiac arrest survival from 4.5% in 2005 to 14% in 2019 in Denmark. This was highlighted by Danish research published in Jama Network, confirming the positive effects of introducing first aid training among young people.
And, on the other hand, the development of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) skills can begin as early as 4 years of age and continue as the children grow, so that by age 10 they will be able to perform effective chest compressions on training dummies.
These are the indications that emerged from the Recommendations drawn up by the three main scientific resuscitation societies THE HEART (International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation, born in 1992 as a technical table of the main scientific organizations on resuscitation), ERC (European resuscitation council, the European scientific society that promotes guidelines on cardiac arrest) e AHA (American Heart Association), published May 17, 2023 on Resuscitation.
More recently, even there Lancet Commission on sudden cardiac arrest he threw a call for multidisciplinary action to win the challenge against a pathology, lsudden cardiac arrest, which despite the efforts made has a survival rate of less than 10% globally. And he reiterated the importance of strengthening the organization of community interventions and emergency medical systems in various localities and health facilities.
VIVA week!
To draw attention to this issue Italian Resuscitation Council (IRC) promotes between 16 and 22 October the VIVA week! with initiatives open to the public throughout Italy aimed at creating awareness of the importance of first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation. The initiative, under the patronage of the Chamber of Deputies, the Ministry of Education and Merit, CONI and Sport and Health, will culminate on 16 October on International Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Day – World Restart a Heart Day promoted by the European Resuscitation Council (ERC).
THEThe IRC National Congress in Vicenza is also scheduled for 20 and 21 October where these issues will be addressed by some of the leading experts in Italy. On the occasion of VIVA! IRC lancer a free competition aimed at all Italian middle and high schools which will offer, among other things, an automatic external defibrillator (AED). To participate, each school must register one or at most two teams each made up of 5 students from the institute and indicate a single contact person responsible for the project. Competitors will download the video game for smartphones and tablets for free Codename: ResUs, created by IRC to teach children life-saving maneuvers in an interactive way. The three teams with the highest scores will be rewarded.
In Italy, the law has existed for three years but remains unenforced
In our country, the teaching of first aid in schools became mandatory with law no. 116 of 4 August 2021 but remained a dead letter because the implementing decree is missing. The only one approved so far, last July, concerns the Dae.Italy is one of the few European countries which, thanks to law 116 of 2021, has foreseen the mandatory teaching of cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the use of automatic external defibrillators (AEDs) in middle and high schools underlines Silvia Scelsi, president of the Italian Resuscitation Council (IRC).
Waiting for this teaching to be included in school curriculaIRC, thanks to the experience gained in clinical, research and training in this area, available to the Government and Ministries that they are working on the application of the many innovative points provided for by the law such as, for example, the diffusion of AEDs in public places and centers where sports are practiced and the creation of a national application for the geo-localization of AEDs.
Around 400 thousand cardiac arrests in Europe, 60 thousand in Italy
Every year in Europe there are approximately 400,000 cardiac arrests (60,000 in Italy) and it is estimated that only in 58% of cases the caregiver intervenes with life-saving maneuvers (cardiac massage, ventilations) and in 28% of cases with the defibrillator. Survival about 8%. In this context, training, from a young age, plays a fundamental role. The Danish study, published in Jama Network (Training in Basic Life Support and Bystander-Performed Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Survival in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrests in Denmark, 2005 to 2019), examined over 50,000 cases of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest that occurred in Denmark between 2015 and 2019 and observed an increase in 30-day survival over this period from 4.5% in 2015 to 14% in 2019.
It has been observed that the increase in survival is associated with a notable increase in the percentage of occasional rescuers who were able to carry out cardiopulmonary resuscitation while waiting for help to arrive (from 27% in 2005 to 80% in 2019). This increase was influenced by the fact that the teaching of cardiopulmonary resuscitation has been made compulsory in Denmark since 2006 to obtain a driving license and to enroll in professional courses to the point that the certificates issued went from 35,000 in 2005 to over 200,000 in each of the following years. The chance of surviving cardiac arrest decreases by 10% for every minute that passes and for this reason it is essential that anyone who witnesses a cardiac arrest immediately carries out life-saving maneuvers such as cardiac massage.
The competition for schools
The first phase of the Codename: ResUs School 2023 Challenge tournament will begin on Monday 16 October, the first day of the VIVA week! and World Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Day ending on Sunday 22 October. After downloading for free on App Store or Google Play the video game for smartphones and tablets Codename: ResUs, each of the 5 members of each team (each school can enroll a maximum of two) will have to repeat the game only once a day for all 7 days of the competition. At the end of the first phase, the contact person for each institute will have to communicate the results to the IRC by October 31st. The three best teams will access the second and final phase of the tournament which will take place in Bologna between the end of 2023 and the first quarter of 2024. The prizes will include an AED to be installed in the winning school and a BLSD (Basic Life Support Defibrillation) course ) to learn life-saving maneuvers and the use of the defibrillator reserved for up to a maximum of 12 people, including students and school staff.
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