Celebrate Community Risk Reduction Week by Learning Hands-Only CPR

The focus of day three of Community Risk Reduction (CRR) Week is Hands-Only CPR. Fairfax County Fire and Rescue would like to remind all residents that Hands-Only CPR can save lives. According to our friends at the American Heart Association, most people who experience cardiac arrest at home, work or in a public location die because they don’t receive immediate CPR from someone on the scene.

As a bystander, don’t be afraid. Your actions can only help. Immediate CPR can double or even triple a person’s chance of survival.

Watch the brief video below to learn how to perform Hands-Only CPR. Also a friendly reminder from Technician Loughnane to give the gift of life and donate blood if you are able! Learn more about that here: Give Blood

Learn Hands-Only CPR

As part of Heart Month, Fairfax County Fire and Rescue would like to remind all residents that Hands-Only CPR can save lives. According to our friends at the American Heart Association, most people who experience cardiac arrest at home, work or in a public location die because they don’t receive immediate CPR from someone on the scene.

As a bystander, don’t be afraid. Your actions can only help. Immediate CPR can double or even triple a person’s chance of survival.

Watch the brief video below to learn how to perform Hands-Only CPR.

Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department Announces Launch of Lifesaving PulsePoint App

Fire Chief John Butler is pleased to announce the official launch of the PulsePoint mobile app in Fairfax County. PulsePoint is a 9-1-1 connected mobile app that alerts CPR-trained residents to someone in a nearby, public location experiencing Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA).

SCA is a leading cause of preventable death. For every minute that passes before help arrives, SCA survival decreases by 7%-10%. The PulsePoint app alerts resident bystanders nearby, trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), who can help victims before Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department firefighters and paramedics arrive. It also directs these potential resident rescuers to the exact location of the closest Automated External Defibrillator (AED).

The PulsePoint mobile app can be found in the Apple App Store and on Google Play.

A Virtual Reunion For Patient And FCFRD Crew

On December 15, 2019 units were dispatched for a 68-year-old male in cardiac arrest with CPR in progress. Rae Cronmiller, an avid swimmer, collapsed in the locker room at Sport & Health after a one-mile swim. A physician, also in the locker room, initiated CPR. The crew from Engine 429, Tysons Corner, B-Shift was already at Sport & Health for physical fitness training and were able to respond quickly. Mr. Cronmiller was defibrillated six times by personnel and regained a pulse in the Emergency Department. Ultimately, Mr. Cronmiller made a neurologically intact recovery and was discharged back home to be with his family on Christmas Eve.

The great news is Rae survived! He is alive today thanks to all the great work by the links in the Chain of Survival – a by-stander who initiated CPR, 9-1-1 call takers, FCFRD personnel and the medical team at the hospital.

Recently, the Cronmiller family had a reunion with the FCFRD crew via Zoom. The shift was thrilled as it is not often that FCFRD personnel hear back from survivors. Watch video below.

Two Easy Steps To Saving A Life

As part of CPR and AED Awareness Week, Fairfax County Fire and Rescue firefighters and paramedics would like to remind all residents that Hands-Only CPR can save lives. According to our friends at the American Heart Association, most people who experience cardiac arrest at home, work or in a public location die because they don’t receive immediate CPR from someone on the scene. 

As a bystander, don’t be afraid. Your actions can only help. Immediate CPR can double or even triple a person’s chance of survival. 

Watch the brief video below to learn how two easy steps can help to save a life in the event of an emergency.

It Is National CPR and AED Awareness Week!

Do you know CPR or how to use an Automated External Defibrillator (AED)? If not, you should as lives could be saved if more people knew CPR along with how to use an AED.

According to the American Heart Association, more than 350,000 people in the United States suffer from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest each year. Approximately 70 percent of those occur in homes. Sadly, just 10 percent survive. However, statistics show that if more people knew CPR, more lives could be saved. Immediate CPR can double, or even triple, a victim’s chance of survival.

Learn more: National CPR and AED Awareness Week