QUICK FACTS

• Survival rates without CPR, decrease by 10% as each minute passes so every minute counts.

• Less than 25% of cardiac patients receive bystander CPR in Dubuque County, IA                                                                                     CARES database, 2024

• Neither emergency medical services (EMS) nor first responders (police, fire) can routinely get to the scene of an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest within the 3-minute time window required to radically improve survival.

                        - The average ambulance response time for an EMS unit

                           to arrive on the scene from the time of a 911 call is 7 minutes. 

                        - This emergency response time increased to more than

                           14 minutes in rural settings.

• Nationally, 73.4% of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests happen at home.

• Immediate bystander CPR can double or even triple a victim’s chance of survival. 

• Hands-Only CPR has been shown to be as effective as conventional CPR for cardiac arrest at home, work or in public. 

• Women need CPR, too! Only 39% of women received CPR from bystanders in public compared to 45% of men.

                                                                                                                                                 Source: heart.org