More than 302 million people reached and over 2,200,000 trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation worldwide: The 2021 ILCOR World Restart a Heart initiative

Lokesh Tiwari; Andrew Lockey; Bernd W Böttiger; Nadine Rott; Amber V Hoover; Ssc Chakra Rao; Rakesh Garg; Lokesh R Edara; ILCOR WRAH collaborators

doi:10.1016/j.resplu.2023.100375

More than 302 million people reached and over 2,200,000 trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation worldwide: The 2021 ILCOR World Restart a Heart initiative

Resusc Plus. 2023 Mar 22:14:100375. doi: 10.1016/j.resplu.2023.100375. eCollection 2023 Jun.

Authors

Lokesh Tiwari^{1

2}, Andrew Lockey³, Bernd W Böttiger⁴, Nadine Rott⁵, Amber V Hoover⁶, Ssc Chakra Rao^{7

2}, Rakesh Garg^{8

2}, Lokesh R Edara^{9

2}; ILCOR WRAH collaborators

Affiliations

¹ All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Patna 801507, India.
² Indian Resuscitation Council Federation, India.
³ Co-chair, ILCOR WRAH Group Resuscitation Council, UK.
⁴ Co-chair, ILCOR WRAH Group Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital of Cologne & German Resuscitation Council, Germany.
⁵ Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital of Cologne & German Resuscitation Council, Germany.
⁶ American Heart Association, USA.
⁷ Department of Anaesthesiology, Care Emergency Hospital, Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh, India.
⁸ All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
⁹ WMU School of Medicine, Kalamazoo, MI, USA.

Abstract

Immediate bystander CPR after an out-of-hospital-cardiac arrest is likely to save hundreds of thousands of lives worldwide each year. International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation launched the World Restart a Heart initiative on October 16, 2018. In 2021 more than 2,200,000 persons were trained and at least 302,000,000 people were reached by WRAH global collaboration through print and digital media making it the highest-impact year since its inception. We strive for real success when CPR training and awareness become a year-round activity in all countries and all the citizens of the world realize that "Two Hands Can Save a Life!"

Keywords: Resuscitation; Two Hands Can Save a Life!; WRAH 2021.