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CPR literacy: Little room for ignorance on a matter of life and death
Singapore has made much progress in training residents to perform CPR and use a defibrillator, but more can be done.
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CPR skills being taught at a booth run by the SCDF as part of NTUC May Day Domestic Employees Celebration 2023 on June 18, 2023.
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Marcus Ong
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Mr Tan (not his real name) was playing badminton with his friends at a school sports hall. During the game, he suddenly felt unwell and collapsed. Fortunately, schoolchildren playing nearby had recently undergone cardiopulmonary resuscitation or CPR training and recognised this was a cardiac arrest.
While they started doing CPR, their teacher ran to get the automated external defibrillator (AED) that the school had recently installed in its sports hall.
