Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation or CPR saves lives. More than 300,000 people have cardiac arrests in the United States every year.  Sudden cardiac arrest happens when an electrical rhythm problem occurs in the heart and the heart is no longer able to pump blood effectively to the rest of the body. You might see a person suddenly collapse, lose consciousness, and stop breathing. The longer the body goes without circulation, the lower the chance's are of survival. By performing CPR, you are able to assist the person's blood to keep circulating until an ambulance arrives and more advanced tools can be used. We know that the chance of surviving a sudden cardiac arrest increases significantly, by more than double, when CPR is started early.