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When Training Becomes Reality!!!!!

Faculty member recognized for life-saving CPR on neighbor Miami-Dade County Fire Rescue recently honored Lissette Medina for quick actions that saved her 8-year-old neighbor’s life. Last summer, Medina, a physician assistant who is a 2006 alumna and a faculty member in the Physician Assistant Program at FIU's Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, had jus...

Here’s a wild truth: Every minute without CPR drops a person’s survival chance by 10%.
Read that again — ten. percent. per. minute. 😳

Most cardiac arrests don’t happen in hospitals — they happen in homes, right next to people who love you.
The scary part? Nearly 70% of Americans say they wouldn’t know what to do if someone collapsed right in front of them.
And yet, immediate CPR can double or even triple survival rates.
That’s not a statistic — that’s your family, your neighbor, your coworker.

I’ve seen it firsthand: when someone steps in fast and starts compressions, you can literally see life return.
When no one acts… those minutes feel like an eternity.

CPR isn’t complicated. It’s not just for medics or superheroes — it’s for you.
It takes just a few hours to learn, but it could give someone decades more life.
So take the class, teach your family, and be the reason someone gets another tomorrow. ❤️