• About 700,000 Americans die each year from cardiac heart disease, making it the number one killer in the United States and accounting for 29% of all deaths. (cdc.gov/heartdisease/index.htm, 2/9/07)

• About 1.2 million Americans suffer a heart attack each year, with someone suffering a heart attack every 26 seconds and someone dying every minute. (americanheart.org/statistics, 12/06)

• In 2005, Virginia hospitals reported a total of 38,359 hospital discharges with an injury diagnosis; injuries accounted for 4.6% of all hospital discharges. In the same year, Virginia reported 4,005 deaths resulting from injury out of 57,642 total deaths; accounted for 6.9% of all deaths. With regards to Virginia’s children, adolescents and young adults, injuries accounted for 41% of deaths in 2005. Injury deaths also accounted for 63% of all deaths for children and adolescents between the ages of 1 and 19. And finally, injuries accounted for over half of the deaths for adults between the ages of 25 and 34. (vahealth.org/civp, 2005)

• Study conducted in 11 cities within the United States and Canada showed of 10,600 reported cases of out-of-the-hospital cardiac arrests, 259 patients had CPR and an AED applied by a bystander.  The study showed that the AED increased the survival rate to 36% compared to the overall survival rate of 7% where an AED was not used. (msnbc.msn.com/id/21654200/, 11/07)

 
I want to share these statistics with you to let you know how important it is to have CPR and First Aid training.  It is a wonderful feeling to be able to help someone who is sick or hurt; it is also very stressful if you are unsure how to help them.  I hope you are never confronted with someone in an emergency situation, but if you are, I want you to be confident in your knowledge and skills in order to help that person.  It is so important to take a CPR and First Aid training class and maintain your skills and knowledge because you are never sure when you will need them. 

Shenandoah CPR, Inc. is committed to providing you with high quality training in a comfortable and stress-free learning environment.  Our class sizes are small, between 5 and 10 students, in order to offer individual attention.  We have 15 years of experience in teaching CPR and First Aid classes to all types of healthcare professionals, industry workers, and individuals in the community.  We know how to tailor our classes to meet individual learning needs in order to cover required material in an effective and efficient manner.

Shenandoah CPR, Inc. is a professional training center that works with your schedule to provide dependable, reliable, and competent training to meet your work environment or organizational needs.   We are a mobile training center that comes to you to provide CPR and First Aid training courses.
 
Our servicing area of CPR and First Aid Training is along Interstate 81 within the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia.  Towns and Cities to the northern part are: Winchester, Berryville, Front Royal, Woodstock, and Edinburg; central are Luray, Timberville, Harrisonburg, Bridgewater, Elkton; southern are Staunton, Waynesboro and Charlottesville.  If you are outside the servicing area, please call and we may to able to accommodate you. 

Shenandoah CPR, Inc. Provides CPR, AED, and First Aid Training Programs Through:

• American Heart Association
• National Safety Council
• American Safety and Health Institute
• American Red Cross

Programs Include:

• CPR & AED Training (Adult, Child, and Infant)
• First Aid Training (Adult and Pediatric)
• CPR & AED with First Aid Training (Adults in the Workplace and Active Community Organizations)