Restart a heart: Learn CPR

Could you be the difference between a life lost and a life saved? The Restart a Heart Team will be at Strand Shopping Centre, Douglas on 12 October 2024, to teach life-saving skills that could help those around you.

The Manx Care Resus Team and St John Ambulance are once again collaborating and will be in situ between 10:00 and 16:00. The team will be performing Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) demonstrations, answering any questions that you may have, and giving people the opportunity to have a go themselves (with and without defibrillators).

The initiative is led by Resuscitation Council UK, who gather an alliance of partners to raise awareness of cardiac arrests and to help people learn CPR. Survival rates from sudden cardiac arrests remain stubbornly low in the UK, with fewer than one in ten people surviving.

Senior Nurse, Paul Ellis, who will be leading the event, commented: “We have successfully delivered this workshop for a number of years now and encourage people of all ages to come along, as you never know when these skills may be needed. The aim of this campaign is to raise awareness and to teach CPR. Around 80% of cardiac arrests happen in the home, so your two hands really can help save a life.”