NBC News: Doctors Call on More People to Learn CPR After Damar Hamlin's Cardiac Arrest

Doctors are calling on the public to familiarize themselves with lifesaving CPR techniques after Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin suffered cardiac arrest during a football game Monday night in Cincinnati.

Dr. Paul Chan, cardiologist at Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute and the senior author on the recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) on racial and ethnic differences in bystander CPR, says that getting CPR started is "the one things that saved his life."

Chan's research has shown that formal CPR training is conducted less often in Black and Hispanic communities than in white communities and that Black and Hispanic people are less likely than white people to receive bystander CPR at home or in public, which leads to lower survival rates after cardiac arrest.

Read the full article on NBC News: Doctors Call on More People to Learn CPR After Damar Hamlin's Cardiac Arrest

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