More than 150 local residents now know how to potentially save someone's life after a community CPR event last month.
Muscle Memory in Tsawwassen hosted a series of 30-minute sessions to teach locals how to perform CPR as well as how to use an automatic external defibrillator (AED).
Tsawwassen resident Stephen Nordin, a retired Vancouver firefighter, has been working out at Muscle Memory for several years. Recently, Nordin decided he wanted to do something to give back to the community and he bought an AED, a portable electronic device that can automatically check a person experiencing a life-threatening heart problem and, if needed, administer an electrical shock.
It is designed so anyone can use it, regardless of whether they have any first aid or AED training.
Nordin approached Muscle Memory owner Rob Gillespie about donating the AED to the training studio and the two came up with the idea to hold an event to offer some basic first aid training.
