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AMR Teaches More Than 51,000 People How to Save Lives with Compression-Only CPR

(Greenwood Village, CO) - On May 22, American Medical Response (AMR) healthcare professionals went coast-to-coast and trained more than 51,000 people how to save a life using chest compression-only CPR as part of the inaugural AMR World CPR Challenge. One hundred and forty AMR operations in 40 states, as well as operations in Trinidad and Tobago and India, participated in the day-long event. “Compression-only CPR performed by a bystander can more than double the survival rate of a...
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