Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) is requesting your help in addressing a health concern that impacts Towson University’s (TU) entire community: cardiac arrest. Cardiac arrest has accounted for 100 percent of TU workplace deaths since 1989, and 90 percent of non TU employees who suffer out-of-hospital cardiac arrests die. If you learn CPR, you can help coworkers, family and friends survive cardiac attacks.
The two simple steps of Hands-Only™ CPR can be learned in just one minute. Click here to watch the Hands-Only™ CPR video. You don’t have to be CPR qualified to do “hands only.”
Share the link with family and friends, and ask them to learn CPR. EHS would like 100 percent employee participation.
The American Heart Association (AHA) still recommends CPR with compressions and breaths for infants and children and victims of drowning, drug overdose, or people who collapse due to breathing problems. If you’d like to take a CPR course and get certified in CPR, and learn how to use an Automated External Defibrillator (AED), Environmental Health & Safety offers low cost AHA accredited CPR training courses to the campus community. For additional course information, a schedule of when courses are offered and to register online, click here.
You can also view the AHA Hands only CPR fact sheet for additional information.
