The campaign, #HandsOnlyCPR, aims to teach New York residents the basic principles of CPR — check, call, compress — so that “everyone can save a life.” Officials instituted the campaign June 1 as part of National CPR Awareness Week.
Cardiac arrest kills one person every two minutes. An individual’s survival rate decreases 10 percent for every minute CPR isn’t used.
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