Revive & Survive San Diego
Revive & Survive San Diego is an exciting new initiative with the goal of saving lives by training 1 million San Diegans in hands-only cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). This novel partnership between the UC San Diego Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science and the County of San Diego Emergency Medical Services creates an opportunity for partners across the county to build a coalition of lifesavers.
260,024 trained and counting ...
What is hands-only CPR?
CPR is an action anyone can learn to give someone the best chances of survival after an individual's heart stops beating (cardiac arrest). Unlike previous CPR training that required mouth-to-mouth breathing, hands-only CPR involves pushing fast in the center of the chest (chest compressions), which has been shown to be effective in saving lives.
Critical to survival, CPR delays of even a few minutes while awaiting emergency responders to arrive significantly reduce a person's chance for survival. Studies show a 7 to 10 percent decrease in survival for every minute CPR is not performed.
Survival from cardiac arrests in
San Diego County
In 2021, 8.2 percent of people who experienced out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in San Diego County were revived and survived the event. CPR prior to medical first responder arrival was initiated nearly half of the time (48 percent) in San Diego County. Science tells us that training more people to perform life-saving chest compressions will save additional lives.