Approximately 350,000 people in the U.S. experience an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest each year and a staggering 90% of them will not survive.

Doctors with the American Heart Association want to improve the odds for Utahns and others. With that in mind, the association has developed a new set of CPR guidelines aimed at providing effective ways for people without medical training to save lives.

Dr. Ashish Panchal, emergency department physician at Ohio State University, said it is important for bystanders to act immediately when someone's heart stops.

"In that moment when CPR has started, that rescuer's hands is the patient's heart," Panchal pointed out. "Every beat, every compression makes blood flow through the body into their brain, and brings that person one step closer to being

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