In a life-threatening situation, you’ll have the skills to jump into action and increase the rate of survival for someone experiencing cardiac arrest or a heart attack. Why? Because Black or Hispanic adults who experience cardiac arrest outside a hospital setting are substantially less likely to receive lifesaving care from a bystander and women are less likely to receive bystander CPR. You may be the bystander, but you can also be the hero!

Studies in the U.S. have shown that laypeople were. less likely to initiate CPR for people experiencing cardiac arrest in low-income Black neighborhoods or in predominantly Hispanic neighborhoods than in high-income white neighborhoods Learn CPR.