"We have to encourage people to act in the event of respiratory arrest, it saves lives"

Professionals from the Aragonese Society of Emergency Medicine, in collaboration with the Zaragoza College of Physicians, will train young people on cardiopulmonary resuscitation techniques.

"You have to lose the fear of acting. That person is not going to be hurt more than they already have." This is how Javier Pérez Ansón has encouraged the population to participate in the "chain of survival" necessary to try to save the life of a person suffering from cardiorespiratory arrest. As one of the coordinators of the 'hands-only CPR' project, promoted by the Aragonese Society of Emergency Medicine and the Zaragoza College of Physicians, Pérez Ansón explained that this initiative aims to train the youngest people on the basic notions of practicing cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

"You have to call emergencies, but you have to keep in mind that every minute it takes, the patient's survival decreases between 7% and 10%," said the president of Semes Aragón, Rafael Marrón, who recalled that There are studies that reveal that only four out of ten people acknowledge feeling qualified to intervene in the event of cardiorespiratory arrest. But, furthermore, only in one in five cardiac arrests outside the hospital are these maneuvers carried out.

In this first phase, the project is aimed at 3rd and 4th year secondary and high school students from the educational centers that request the activity. It also has the audiovisual 'CPR with only your hands' that has been carried out in collaboration with the students of the Clásicos Luna theater group of the Pedro de Luna Secondary Education Institute in Zaragoza and the Eolo's mixed youth volleyball team of The Muela. "To teach them the technique, something that caught their attention was used in the video. We had to ensure that they followed a rhythm to achieve 100 or 120 comprehensions per minute and for this, Star Wars music was used," he explained. Perez Anson.