Learn CPR at home

Order your CPR Anytime™ Family & Friends™  Personal Learning Program kit online today.  Or call 1-888-LAERDAL (1-888-523-7325).

The CPR Anytime™ Family & Friends™ Personal Learning Program allows families, friends and the general public – those who most likely would never attend a traditional CPR course – to learn the core skills of CPR for adults and children in 22 minutes using their own personal kit. The kit contains everything needed to learn basic CPR, and skills can be learned anywhere, from the comfort of a family home to a large community group setting.

Who should buy a kit?
What does the kit contain?
How much does it cost?
Facts about cardiac arrest
Order the kit

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is an emergency procedure involving chest compressions (pressing down on the chest) and artificial respiration (rescue breathing). It has the power to restore blood flow to someone experiencing cardiac arrest, keeping them alive until an ambulance arrives.

When a person stops breathing and the heart stops beating, the condition is called cardiac arrest. Cardiac arrest may have a variety of causes – heart attack, drowning, stroke, electrocution, suffocation, drug overdose, motor vehicle accident or other injury. Almost 80% of cardiac arrests occur at home and are witnessed by a family member.

Who should buy a kit?
CPR Anytime™ Family & Friends™ is an excellent way for anyone to learn CPR. CPR Anytime™ Family & Friends™ may be right for you, especially if you are:

• A family member of patients at high risk for cardiac arrest.
• A senior, especially those with family members with heart disease.
• A parent with young children.
• Someone who participates in sports such as recreational hockey, basketball and soccer.
• An organization that wants to coordinate a training event for its staff.

What does the kit contain?
Each CPR Anytime™ Family & Friends™ kit provides:

• A personal, inflatable CPR mannequin – “Mini Anne™.”
• CPR Anytime™ Skills Practice DVD.
• CPR for Family & Friends™ booklet.
• Accessories for the program.

How much does the kit cost?
CPR Anytime™ Family & Friends™ kit costs $35 plus shipping, handling and taxes. CPR Anytime products are available for sale for residents in Canada only. 

Order your CPR Anytime™ Family & Friends™ kit online today.

Or call 1-888-LAERDAL (1-888-523-7325).

If you are a Canadian organization who is interested in coordinating a training event for your staff, or if you would like to order a large quantity of CPR Anytime™ Family & Friends™ kits, please contact the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada by calling (416) 553-6999 or e-mail szambon@hsf.ca.

Facts about cardiac arrest
Did you know...

• Up to 45,000 cardiac arrests occur each year in Canada.

• Overall, the rates of survival from cardiac arrest are almost four times greater with CPR.
• In some parts of Canada, the number of bystanders who know how to perform CPR is very low.
• 35 to 55% of cardiac arrests are witnessed by a bystander — usually a family member or friend.
• Less than 5% of people who experience cardiac arrest outside of a hospital survive, largely because CPR is not performed at all or not started soon enough.
• Cardiac arrest survival rates increase when bystanders follow the first three links in the Chain of Survival™:
  • phoning 9-1-1 or your local emergency number.
  • performing CPR right away.
  • providing defibrillation as soon as possible.
• CPR helps maintain vital blood flow to the heart and brain and increases the amount of time that an electric shock from a defibrillator can be effective.
• Death from sudden cardiac arrest is not inevitable. If more bystanders knew and performed CPR, more people would reach the hospital alive and more lives could be saved.
• Brain death starts to occur within 4 to 6 minutes after someone experiences cardiac arrest if CPR and defibrillation do not occur during that time.
• If bystander CPR is not provided, a sudden cardiac arrest victim’s chances of survival fall 7 to 10% for every minute that passes without CPR.
• Defibrillation using an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) must be performed within minutes of a cardiac arrest. An AED is less likely to return the heart to a normal rhythm if CPR has not been performed prior to applying the AED. Few attempts at resuscitation are successful if CPR and defibrillation are not provided within minutes of collapse. 

To place an order for kits for your workplace, call (416) 553-6999 or e-mail szambon@hsf.ca.

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©2007 Laerdal Medical and the American Heart Association.

Last reviewed November 2009.