Proper emergency training would save lives

JIN BO, a 34-year-old deputy editor-in-chief of China's leading online forum Tianya, suffered a heart attack at a subway station in the eastern part of Beijing on Wednesday. He died about 50 minutes after collapsing at Hujialou station despite three women administering artificial respiration for some time immediately after his collapse. Ifeng.com commented on Saturday:

If cardiopulmonary resuscitation, commonly known as CPR, is correctly performed on someone who suffers cardiac arrest within four minutes, the victim's chances of survival greatly increase.

However, in many cases, very few people know how to perform CPR and they call for an ambulance instead and wait for medical staff to do it.