BC Ambulance Service (BCAS) is reporting that improvements in CPR techniques are resulting in increasing cardiac arrest survival rates in B.C.

“All paramedics received training on updated CPR techniques which has resulted in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival rates in B.C. rising from 8.7 per cent in 2006 to 10.6 per cent in 2009 and they continue to increase,” said Health Services Minister Kevin Falcon. “B.C. is one of the best places in North America to survive a cardiac arrest according to information from a research study that includes the BC Ambulance Service.”

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