”Keep the Beat” is a not-for-profit education initiative to make Louisiana communities safer and better places by teaching the public life-saving skills. The program exists through the support of community-minded people and businesses that donate time, effort and funds to improve their hometowns.

The idea is simple: Empower people with knowledge, tools and skills to save a life. “Keep the Beat” provides a chain of survival program, meaning that it works to strengthen the steps a person needs in order to survive cardiac arrest. This is done by providing free “bystander” CPR training and donating automatic defibrillators (AEDs) to make better, safer places to live.

The statistics are bleak. Only one in 20 people know CPR, yet cardiovascular disease is the top killer in the country. It claims about 2,400 lives each day. Sudden cardiac arrest occurs approximately 166,200 times annually. About 95 percent of sudden cardiac arrest victims die before they reach the hospital.

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