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Did you know that Seattle was instrumental in the development of bystander CPR?
1972
Leonard Cobb held the world's first mass citizen training in CPR in Seattle, Washington called Medic He helped train over 100,000 people the first two years of the programs.
1981
A program to provide telephone instructions in CPR began in King County, Washington.
The program used emergency dispatchers to give instant directions while the fire department and EMT personnel were in route to the scene. Dispatcher-assisted CPR is now standard care for dispatcher centers throughout the United States.
Source: American Heart Association
