Two minutes that change everything

A colleague, mid-sentence, stops talking. He tips forward out of his chair. You hear the dull thump of a shoulder hitting the carpet.

You kneel beside him. "Michael? Michael, can you hear me?" Nothing. His chest isn't moving. His face is grey.

The room goes very quiet.

In the next ten minutes, you are his best chance. Not the ambulance. Not the doctor. You — with your two hands in the middle of his chest.

That sounds dramatic because it is. When a heart stops, the brain has about 3 to 5 minutes before damage starts. An ambulance, even in a well-served city, averages 7 to 10 minutes. Do the maths.

The good news: you don't need to be a doctor. You need two things — the willingness to start, and a rough sense of the rhythm. This module gives you both.

Cardiac arrest without bystander CPR — survival around 5–10%.
Cardiac arrest with bystander CPR + early AED — survival up to 40–70%.

That's not a small difference. That's a life.