FORSYTH COUNTY, N.C. (WGHP) — Every day, an estimated one thousand people have a sudden cardiac arrest. Of those people, only about 100 survive.
“We need to really change those statistics, and CPR is what changes the statistics,” said Sarah Fedele, director of communications and marketing for the American Heart Association.
Jay Stone knows firsthand the benefits of CPR. It helped save his life.
“I was never, I don’t think I was the poster child for someone who was going to have a heart attack,” Stone said.
High Point University dental school to offer mobile care clinic
He wasn’t feeling great one Sunday morning back in May. He checked his blood pressure, and it was dangerously high.
A friend told him to get to the hospital immediately.
“My wife went upstairs and told the kids we were about to leave. Just a couple seconds later, I stood up and experienced …