Learn to Save a Life This October
Mount Sinai Health System urges the general public, especially students, to learn lifesaving CPR and how to use an automated external defibrillator to reduce sudden cardiac death rates.
The Mount Sinai Health System will host free cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) fairs this October, to increase the community's knowledge about sudden cardiac arrest and how to save more lives from it by teaching lifesaving hands-only CPR and the proper use of an automated external defibrillator.
Sudden cardiac arrest occurs when a person's heart abruptly stops beating, and may be caused by a dangerous abnormal heart rhythm, a genetic predisposition, or for no explained reason. Each year, more than 350,000 adults and children die unexpectedly from sudden cardiac arrest.
Mount Sinai invites students at area schools and community members to attend its CPR Awareness Fairs. Attendees will be taught by Mount Sinai Health System's cardiologists, nurse practitioners, nurses, emergency medicine experts, and other staffers, who will demonstrate hands-only CPR and automated external defibrillator technology. Attendees will also be able to explore the inside of a Mount Sinai ambulance.
"Mount Sinai's CPR Awareness Fairs are very important to show adults and children how to save a life during an emergency," says Beth Oliver, DNP, RN, Senior Vice President of Cardiac Services for the Mount Sinai Health System. "If CPR and/or an automated external defibrillator is used within minutes to resuscitate a person who experiences a sudden cardiac arrest, it may save their life."
Mount Sinai CPR Awareness Fairs will take place on Wednesday, October 17,at these locations:
The Mount Sinai Hospital
11 am – 2 pm
1468 Madison Avenue
Guggenheim Pavilion, Lobby
Mount Sinai St. Luke's
11 am – 2 pm
1111 Amsterdam Avenue at 114th Street
Babcock Lobby, First Floor
Mount Sinai West
11 am – 2 pm
1000 Tenth Avenue at West 58th Street
Main Lobby
Mount Sinai Beth Israel
11 am – 1 pm
1 Nathan D. Perlman Place
First Floor Bernstein Building
About the Mount Sinai Health System
Mount Sinai Health System is one of the nation’s leading integrated academic health systems and one of the largest in the New York metropolitan area. The Health System includes approximately 48,000 employees, more than 9,000 physicians, and 8,600 nurses across seven hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, over 600 research and clinical laboratories, a school of nursing, and schools of medicine and graduate school of biomedical sciences.
As a leading learning health system, Mount Sinai combines clinical expertise with scientific discovery to improve patient care while training the next generation of health care and biomedical leaders. The Health System provides care across every stage of life, from prenatal care through geriatrics, while advancing personalized medicine through artificial intelligence, data science, and biomedical research.
Mount Sinai is consistently recognized among the nation’s leading academic health systems for patient care, research, and education. The Mount Sinai Hospital is ranked No. 1 in New York and recognized as one of the world’s top Smart Hospital by Newsweek. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai ranks No. 11 among U.S. medical schools for National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding and No. 1 among freestanding medical schools, reflecting the strength of its scientific enterprise and leadership in biomedical research.
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