Infant CPR
General purpose: To inform

Specific purpose: To inform my audience on importance of learning infant CPR.

Thesis Statement: In order to save a victim’s life it is important to know the steps of CPR before the emergency services can reach to you.

Introduction
CPR stands for cardiopulmonary resuscitation. It is a lifesaving procedure that is done when someone's breathing or heartbeat has stopped. This may happen after drowning, suffocation, choking, or other injuries. CPR involves Rescue breathing, which provides oxygen to the lungs and chest compressions, which keep the blood flowing. There are many things that cause an infant's heartbeat and breathing to stop. Some reasons you may need to do CPR on an infant including Choking, drowning, electrical shock, excessive bleeding, head trauma or serious injury, lung disease, poisoning and Suffocation. According to American Heart Association 70 percent of Americans may feel helpless to act during a cardiac emergency because they either do not know how to administer CPR or their training has significantly lapsed. This alarming statistic could hit close to home, because home is exactly where 88 percent of cardiac arrests occur. Today am going to talk about why learn CPR, who you can save with CPR and lastly I will talk about how to administer cpr to an infant.

Transition: so lets begin by looking at why we should learn CPR.

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I. Experts estimate that CPR could save more than 100,000 lives each year if enough people mastered the technique.
A. According to Jess Febros’ February 2011 article, “AHA: Cardiac Arrest”, Cardiac arrest is one of the leading causes of death in the United States.
1. About 75 percent to 80 percent of all out-of-hospital cardiac arrests happen at home, so being trained to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) can mean the difference between life and death for a loved one

B. Effective bystander CPR, provided immediately after cardiac arrest, can double a victim’s chance of survival. 1. If bystander CPR is not provided, a sudden cardiac arrest victim’s chances of survival fall 7 percent to 10 percent for every minute of delay until defibrillation. 2. Death from sudden cardiac arrest is not inevitable. If more people knew CPR, more lives could be saved.
Transition: now that you know a little bit about how important it is to learn cpr, I will tell you who you can save with cpr.

II. The life you save with CPR is mostly likely to be a loved one.
A. Statistically speaking, if called on to administer CPR in an emergency, the life you save is likely to be someone at home: a child, a spouse, a parent or a friend.
1. African-Americans are almost twice as likely to experience cardiac arrest at home, work or in another public location than Caucasians, and their survival rates are twice as poor as for Caucasians.

Transition: lastly lets talk why do people lack motivation to learn or perform
CPR?

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Infant CPR
General purpose: To inform

Specific purpose: To inform my audience on importance of learning infant CPR.

Thesis Statement: In order to save a victim’s life it is important to know the steps of CPR before the emergency services can reach to you.

Introduction
CPR stands for cardiopulmonary resuscitation. It is a lifesaving procedure that is done when someone's breathing or heartbeat has stopped. This may happen after drowning, suffocation, choking, or other injuries. CPR involves Rescue breathing, which provides oxygen to the lungs and chest compressions, which keep the blood flowing. There are many things that cause an infant's heartbeat and breathing to stop. Some reasons you may need to do CPR on an infant including Choking, drowning, electrical shock, excessive bleeding, head trauma or serious injury, lung disease, poisoning and Suffocation. According to American Heart