Health and Safety
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DESCRIPTION
This service launched by SAMUR - Protección Civil in 2004 provides training to citizens in general as well as first responders, i.e. people who are often present at incidents due to the nature of their work: national and municipal police officers, firefighters, security guards, teachers, etc.
Implementation of this programme has resulted in a significant increase in the percentage of cases in which a citizen or first responder carries out CPR before the arrival of SAMUR - Protección Civil: from 20% in 2007 to over 50% in recent years.
The service is believed to have increased survival without after-effects or neurological deterioration in cardiac arrest patients assisted by SAMUR - Protección Civil.
OBJECTIVES
- Train citizens as the first link in the “SAMUR chain of life”, a survival chain which is the basis for most decisions made regarding management of the services provided by SAMUR - Protección Civil
- Enable increased survival without neurological damage in patients who have experienced a cardiac arrest
THE PROJECT IN NUMBERS
It is estimated that SAMUR-PC has trained 9% of Madrid’s citizens in CPR over the past 12 years.
In its Service Charter, SAMUR-Protección Civil undertakes to: Teach at least 350 “Alerter” courses per year, with a minimum of 20,000 participants, and at least 300 “First Responder” courses per year, with a minimum of 8,000 participants, training over 5,000 people on CPR per year.
DURATION
The project began in 2004 and will run indefinitely.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
SAMUR & Protección Civil website >>
Service Charter >>
