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SGH doctor on mission to boost CPR training
Providing immediate help can raise cardiac-arrest survival rates from 14% to 50%
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Associate Professor Marcus Ong, 48, has pushed for more people to be trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation, including spearheading training sessions in schools, offices, community clubs and religious organisations through the Dispatcher Assisted first Responder programme.
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Samantha Boh
Ten minutes. What happens in this small window of time after a heart stops beating can mean the difference between life and death.
But often, it takes that amount of time, or more, for help to reach a cardiac arrest victim outside a hospital. The statistics are shocking.
