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Heart month: Researchers create Texas’ first statewide cardiac arrest registry, highlight racial disparities in CPR training

Photo of Salil Bhandari, MD, demonstrating how to do bystander CPR safely during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by UTHealth)

Projections from Texas’ first cardiac arrest registry show that every day at least 60 Texans will suffer an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, which is a sudden loss of heart function, breathing, and consciousness. If bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is performed, the victim’s chance of survival can triple, but less than half of victims in the Lone Star State receive any bystander CPR, according to data from the registry.

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Heart month: Researchers create Texas’ first statewide cardiac arrest registry, highlight racial disparities in CPR training