14 DAY TRIAL // Being clinically dead doesn't necessarily mean you're gone for good, not if someone close to you administers CPR. Many people aren't trained in it though, and that's why the Cardio First Angel CPR coach was invented.
Performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation has to be in the first 15 minutes after a heart attack occurred in order to save a life.
If it's done properly and quickly, the one who suffered the heart failure could recover completely, or as completely as someone with a weak heart possibly could.
Even if the application of CPR isn't enough to get the heart pumping again, it can stave off irreversible damage to the brain by maintaining blood flow until a team of trained medics get to the scene with a defibrillator.
You might be tempted to say that anyone can do the common compression/resuscitation method. After all, it's used in every other movie.
The truth, however, is that it takes a lot of practice for medical dummies to learn to do it properly. And when the life of someone is on the line, effectiveness is kind of important.
Then there's the other method, performed on adult patients by the American Heart Association. It needs the practitioner to keep pressing on the patient's chest at 100 to 120 compressions per minute, since it's more important to keep blood circulating than venting the lungs sometimes.
The Cardio First Angel is a mechanical device that will teach even untrained people to properly administer CPR according to the second method.
All you have to do is take the Cardio from its plastic case and press the big red button (which has the instructions printed on it).
After emergency services are called, the practitioner is told to place the foam-backed device on the chest, with the point of the oval shape on the base of the sternum.
Then one has to place both hand heels on the button and press down in a rocking motion at a rate of 100-120 beats per minute.
The spring of the button makes a loud click when 41 kg (90 lb) of pressure is applied (that's the more or less optimal pressure), then a loud clack when springing back. Keeping at it at twice per second could be daunting, but it's assumed that adrenaline will give practitioners that burst of energy required to keep at it.
The Cardio First Angel was built by Cardio First Angel International Group based in Munich, Germany.
