reports<\/a> by starting CPR within the first 10 minutes on someone going into cardiac arrest, it may greatly improve their chances for survival. 81% of patients are given a higher chance of survival if bystander CPR was administered within the first two minutes.<\/p>\n\u201cTime is brain,\u201d Curry said, \u201cand so the longer we go without blood flow to the brain, the worst results are going to be, including death. The sooner people get doing compressions, the better chance at survivability.\u201d<\/p>\n
When you call UMC EMS, they\u2019ll even give you step-by-step instructions on how to administer CPR correctly. UMC EMS also offers free hands-on training to schools, businesses and churches and more throughout Lubbock county.<\/p>\n
While this is a situation no one wants to go through, Curry says by being able to perform CPR on someone, even if they\u2019re a complete stranger, it could change their lives for the better, forever.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe next thing you know, you have a story of someone that gets to go home and have their next anniversary or they get to see their kids graduate,\u201d Curry said. \u201cThat\u2019s what makes a difference in everybody\u2019s life.\u201d<\/p>\n
A Lubbock resident is showing us why having CPR knowledge can be so crucial. <\/p>\n
Ethan Gallegos was picking up his kids from daycare last Friday when his wife noticed a lady having troubles getting a man out of her car in a parking lot. When they stopped to help, the man had no pulse and was not breathing.<\/p>\n
Gallegos administered CPR for three to five minutes before EMS arrived. He was a lifeguard in high school, and he says that made all the difference.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s one of those things you hope you don\u2019t have to use, but thank God I knew how to do it,\u201d Gallegos said. \u201cIt\u2019s one of those things that everybody should learn how to do if they get the opportunity to. I encourage anybody to go take a class or find someone in your community who\u2019s qualified to teach it and learn it, because it can save a life, you know?\u201d<\/p>\n
You can find the link to set-up CPR training through UMC here<\/a>.<\/p>\nCopyright 2025 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) – Chad Curry has spent nearly three decades at UMC EMS. He\u2019s seen a lot…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-65149","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-lubbock","9":"tag-lubbock-headlines","10":"tag-lubbock-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}