Cardiac arrest is one of the leading causes of deaths around the world, and as per the news reports that scenario is similar in India. Many articles have reported young people as victims of cardiac arrest, proving that cardiac arrest is not restricted to any particular age, gender or profession.

One of the major issues around cardiac arrest in India is its lack of awareness, and lack of information on measures to be taken after witnessing such a case. CPR is a life saving skill that can revive the victim from the arrested state if provided help correctly within the given time. The bystander CPR rate is very low in India, hardly around 2% of the population are aware about the techiques of CPR.

As major of the cardiac arrests happen outside hospital, it is highly likely that only a lay bystander will witness a victim getting an arrest, and hence a bystander plays a very important role in saving the victim’s life.

Creating awarness amongst people about CPR through trainings and seminars is very important, but relying just on these training sessions to create immediate impact on improving the bystander CPR rate in India is ambitous.

Hence my project aims in developing such a design solution that encourages and assists a bystander to provide CPR to the victim. A cost effective, portable and easily available solution that could be operated over the victim by the bystander until the emergency medical service reaches the site.

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