Eleven Ways To Remember 9-11: Day One Learn CPR

People ask the ways to remember 9-11 regularly. There is no singlular best answer for how to remember, but here we present eleven ways to memorialize 9/11 as we approach the 20th anniversary of the September 11 tragedy. We will never forget that day or those lost.

The 9-11 Foundation hopes Americans will take a moment to consider how they can best remember the attacks, the response, but the unrivaled strength America had in coming together to overcome the tragedy of that Tuesday morning.

The first recommendation is learn CPR.

Every year nearly 500,000 people have cardiac arrest events in the United States alone. Cardiac arrest claims more lives than multiple cancers (breast, colorectal, and prostate), influenza, pneumonia,  motor vehicle collisions, HIV, firearms, and house fires combined. 350,000 cardiac arrests happen outside the hospital.

CPR – or Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation – is an emergency lifesaving procedure performed that can be performed by anyone when the heart stops beating. Immediate CPR can double or triple chances of survival after cardiac arrest. Less than half the people experiencing out of hospital cardiac arrest receive bystander CPR despite measurable statistics showing it saves lives when started prior to professional rescuers.

If you want to honor the responders to the 9/11 tragedy, you can take a small step learning this important lifesaving skill. Courses are conducted around the country and you can find a local course through the American Heart Association’s CPR course matrix.

It is important to remember that most bystanders who perform prehospital CPR are doing so on a friend or family member. The AHA developed a course specific to this purpose for the layperson because of these statistics.

Eleven Ways To Remember 9-11

The 9-11 Foundation will continue to update ways to remember 9/11 through September 11. Continue to watch this space.