The Importance of CPR

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In Durham County, where he works, Tracy Stell estimates that people start CPR before help arrives less than 5% of the time. Good Samaritan laws say that if you're doing your best to do CPR, even if you crack someone's ribs, you probably can't be successfully sued. We teach a lot of hands-only CPR because folks really don't want to put their mouth on somebody they don't know.

When a toymaker and a doctor teamed up to make the world’s first CPR doll, they decided to make the doll’s face look like one specific woman – a woman who they thought had drowned. People call her l’Inconnue de la Seine, or the Unknown Woman of the Seine.

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