A campaign to teach CPR to people in Leeds has reached a significant milestone, as volunteers have trained more than 600 students.
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00:00Hi, my name is Maria. I'm a fourth year medical student from the University of Leeds.
00:09Hi, I'm Jenny. I'm one of the Clinical Skills Educators within the Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of Leeds.
00:15So today we're here representing Restart the Heart Day. So we are the local Leeds branch of Restart the Heart, which is a global initiative.
00:23So we train volunteers from the Faculty of Medicine and Health to engage the public into learning life-saving skills like CPR and defibrillation.
00:34We're hoping to engage as many people as we can to increase their confidence and skills around CPR and the use of defibrillators.
00:42So we're hoping to get lots of people through of different ages so that we can increase people's confidence as much as we can do.
00:50So currently the rate of survival for an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is 1 in 10.
00:56And we're hoping that by increasing knowledge and spreading awareness of how to perform these life-saving measures like CPR and using defibrillators, that hopefully we can improve that.
01:08So, so far we have had a very successful event. We have managed to train more than 80 people in just a few hours and we really hope that we can keep up with these rates.
01:17We have had two previous events already in Leeds before, one in Leeds train station and one outside the Leeds University Union, where we have managed to train more than 500 people in life-saving skills of how to perform chest compressions and defibrillation.
01:33So we really hope to carry on with this message and our impact in the community.