Each year events ranging from choking to cardiac arrests claim thousands of lives.  While this is tragic in and of itself, the more tragic part is that many of these deaths could be prevented. The way to prevent many of these deaths is a simple knowledge of CPR basics. As a provider of CPR courses we know first hand what an impact this knowledge would make and we hope that more and  more will become aware of this. We’ve put together some of these sobering statistics and CPR basics in the graphic below.