CLARK COUNTY — You could learn to save a life in 22 minutes, or even faster by watching a short video.
It’s simple to help adults who collapse from sudden cardiac arrest.
In the upcoming Community CPR Challenge, Fire District 6 and Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center are inviting folks, including children, to see how many people can learn the hands-only method (no mouth-to-mouth) of CPR in one evening.
The free training is 6:30 to 8 p.m. on May 19, at Salmon Creek Elementary School, 1601 N.E. 129th St. It can be learned in as little as 22 minutes, officials said.
In hands-free CPR, recommended by the American Heart Association when adults collapse, no rescue breaths are used — just hard, fast chest compressions that keep blood and its oxygen moving to the brain.
