PHOTO: NSW Minister for Health Ryan Park shows his CPR skills
According to the NSW Department of Health over 8,500 people experience an out of hospital cardiac arrest in NSW every year, and only 12 per cent will survive.
With a median ambulance wait time in Coonamble of 10.8 minutes, doing what you can prior to paramedics arrival can be the difference between life and death with survival chances dropping by 7-10 per cent with every passing minute a patient goes without Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR).
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