{"id":112468,"date":"2022-06-02T23:18:56","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T03:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=112468"},"modified":"2022-06-03T15:59:08","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T19:59:08","slug":"bicyclists-tale-of-survival-is-reminder-that-immediate-cpr-saves-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=112468","title":{"rendered":"Bicyclist\u2019s Tale of Survival is Reminder that Immediate CPR Saves Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"author-meta\" data-fetch-key=\"1\" data-v-604cbc66=\"\" data-v-271448cc=\"\">By Capital Blue Cross<\/div>\n<div data-fetch-key=\"1\" data-v-604cbc66=\"\" data-v-271448cc=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-excerpt\" data-v-271448cc=\"\"><em>Rich Williams beat the odds. About 90% of people who suffer sudden cardiac arrest die. Williams lived. His story reminds us that cardiac arrest can happen anywhere and any time, and that bystanders can help improve the odds of survival by performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).<\/em><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"\"><br \/>\nAs he had done countless times before, Rich Williams, a fit, lean, 62-year-old, joined friends for a long bicycle ride through Lebanon County farm country on the morning of Sept. 4, 2021, unaware of the ticking time bomb in his chest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"\">He has no memory of what happened next. The cardiac arrest, the bike crash, the ambulance ride to the hospital \u2013 it\u2019s all a blur. What he knows is that he is alive today because friends leapt to his aid, called 911, and performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in the crucial minutes before help came.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"\">It\u2019s a compelling reminder of the unpredictable nature of sudden cardiac arrest, and the vital role ordinary bystanders can play when the unexpected happens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"\">More than 350,000 people suffer sudden cardiac arrest outside of the hospital each year, and about 90% die, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Nearly 80% of sudden cardiac arrests occur at home or in a nursing home setting, while about 21% occur at work and in other public areas. Warning signs are rare.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"\">\u201cI heard someone holler \u2018Rich went down,\u2019\u201d said fellow rider Bobbie Ayers, a registered nurse and clinical vendor consultant at Capital Blue Cross. That triggered a textbook emergency response.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Story continued <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/thinkcapitalbluecross.com\/business-articles\/12ab40bf-0b73-46bb-af45-62b18ed278dd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/thinkcapitalbluecross.com\/<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/thinkcapitalbluecross.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">THINK\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/strong>(Trusted Health Information, News, and Knowledge) is a community publication of Capital Blue Cross. Our mission is to provide education, resources, and news on the latest health and insurance issues.<\/p>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nJERRY REIMENSCHNEIDER<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Capital Blue Cross Rich Williams beat the odds. About 90% of people who suffer sudden cardiac arrest die. Williams lived. His story reminds us that cardiac arrest can happen &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=112468\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bicyclist\u2019s Tale of Survival is Reminder that Immediate CPR Saves Lives<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112469,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/think.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112468"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/112469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}