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http://www.today.com/id/51048747/site/todayshow/ns/today-good_news/t/he-breathing-cop-saves-man-cpr/#.UTYHaDCyDa8

When we think of cops we think of people who put down their own lives in order to protect us, in this article Officer Christopher Stevens did CPR on a young man at a gas station until paramedics arrived, this saved the kids life. I believe that it is very important for everyone, not just law enforcement and medical personal to know how to use this procedure, you never know whose life it may save.
CPR is the method used to help someones heart restart. CPR consist of chest compressions and multiple breaths given in between sets of thirty compressions. It is no longer required to give the breaths as long as you are getting 103 chest compressions in each minute. Chest compressions are seemed to be the most important part of the process.

Many people such as , cops, paramedics and lifeguards are taught this skill and use it multiple times throughout their jobs. Alot of people just take the class in order to be prepared for the unexpected. I took these classes in the tenth grade while taking medical classes at UACCB. I took these classes in order to be able to use CPR if I was ever put in the situation to do so.

I can relate to this topic because last year my mom and I were coming back home from Jonesboro and came across a man who was hit by a car. He was in the road and unresponsive, my mom is certified in CPR and was able to start CPR before the paramedics arrived. He was resesitated and actually lived through this brutal event. Without my mom being certified this man could have easy died in the middle of the road that day.

I believe that it is very important for everyone to know how to use CPR, this cop is a very good example as in why everyone should know how to do so. He was getting a cup of coffee in a gas station when he saw the young mans mother screaming for help. If he wouldn't have been there or not had been certified the man would have died in the gas station.

This could happen to any of us, be in the grocery store and someone go into cardiac arrest, or be in your house and your father have a heart attack, and the only way to help is to know CPR. That is why I believe it is very important to know that skill,  you may never know who life it could save. It may even be your own.