Incidence of sudden cardiac arrest in the general population is 50 to 100 per 100,000.

Important Guidelines

• Immediate recognition of sudden cardiac arrest by noting unresponsiveness or absent/gasping breathing (breathing that does not look normal) is key.
• Health care professional rescuers should not take more than 10 seconds to check for a pulse.
• Immediately initiate excellent cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR); “push hard, push fast” (but not too hard nor too fast).
• Minimize interruptions in CPR.
• Single untrained rescuers should perform excellent chest compression-only or hands-only CPR.
• Use an automated external defibrillator (AED) as soon as available
• Patient survival depends mainly upon immediate initiation of excellent CPR and rapid defibrillation.

Dr KK Aggarwal

Padma Shri Awardee

President Confederation of Medical Associations in Asia and Oceania (CMAAO)

Group Editor-in-Chief IJCP Publications

President Heart Care Foundation of India

Past National President IMA