First aid zone states that 900 people a year choke to death in Australia another 2500 asphyxiate due to a blocked airway and 29,000 people die cardiac arrest.

Many of these people could be saved if they were given first aid.

Recent report by the ABC states that if someone is given CPR within the first minute of their heartstopper, they have an 80% chance of survival. They have a survival rate of less than 5%. If CPR is not administered within the first 10 minutes.

Despite this the royal flying Doctor service recently announced they only 5 out of 100 Australian have first aid training. One of the lowest in the world

34% of Australians say they know CPR although only one out of 10 say they know how to administer it to a child or infant.

In the United States where 65% of Americans know CPR the American Heart Association states that an additional 100 to 200,000 people could be saved if it was administered in a timely manner.

Our person who is focused on increasing the odds of survival for Australians that find themselves in this kind of life or death situation by educating the 95% of Australians that don’t have first aid training and the 66% of Australians that don’t know CPR is Deborah Geerts and she join us here today