Contact: Muriel Banares or
Carmen Ramos Chandler ,
(818) 677-2130
mbanares@exec.csun.edu

CSUN to Host Northridge Hospital Fifth Annual CPR Blitz

The West San Fernando Valley Division of the American Heart Association is presenting this community education event to train and certify over 400 people in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).

The training will take place in CSUN's Matadome at 18111 Nordhoff St. in Northridge. Sign-in registration will start at 8 a.m. with instruction following from 9 a.m. to noon.

Registration is $15 before April 24, and $20 for any entries received thereafter. All proceeds from the event will benefit the American Heart Association.

In addition to CPR training, this year's CPR Blitz will include demonstrations of an automated external defibrillator (AED). Electronic AEDs are used by trained personnel to jump-start a heart that has stopped beating or is beating irregularly.

The American Heart Association is advocating the widespread availability of AEDs in public places in support of State Senate Bill 911. SB 911 will allow trained individuals to use AEDs on a victim in an emergency situation such as a sudden cardiac arrest.

According to AHA, over 460 people suffer from cardiac arrest in California's public places every month; of them, an estimated 440 will die. The survival rate of sudden cardiac arrest victims outside a hospital setting is less than five percent.

For more information, call the American Heart Association at (310) 277-2171.