Thursday, June 3, 2010

Free health fair in Pasadena Sunday

Health screenings, tips on healthy living and free CPR training will be offered at a health fair Sunday, June 6, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

The free event at Victory Park, 2575 Paloma St., from 1 to 5:30 p.m. is sponsored by Code 3 Life Support Education and Pasadena City Councilman Steve Haderlein, who represents District 4.

The goal of the public event is to promote healthy living and teach Hands Only CPR to as many people as possible. Participants include Pasadena Police Department, Pasadena Fire Department, WeightWatchers, Armory Center for the Arts, Paracelsus Natural Family Health Center, Institute for Girls’ Development, ADMI Dental Group, The Bella Vita and A Beautiful Life Psychology Group Inc.

The USC School of Pharmacy, Operation Diabetes, will perform glucose screenings; Western University’s PA Program will perform blood pressure screenings; and Dr. Jon Postajian will perform spinal screenings.

Local students from Sahag Mesrob Armenian Christian School will finalize their fundraising for The American Heart Association with a jump rope rally. There will be demonstrations and sessions from local businesses that promote active lifestyles, including Karate by Jeff Speakman’s Kenpo 5.0, fitness dance by The Athletic Garage, yoga by The Awareness Center and indoor boot camp by No Excuses. Attendees will receive discounts, coupons, prizes and gifts.

Sudden cardiac arrest can strike anyone, anywhere. When it does, a victim’s survival depends on who is around. Skilled emergency personnel treat about 300,000 victims of out-of-hospital sudden cardiac arrest in the U.S., but more than 92 percent of people who suffer cardiac arrest outside the hospital die from it.

Knowing how to perform CPR can make a life-or-death difference. Training more people to perform CPR increases survival by enabling more bystanders to handle an emergency. Without immediate CPR, a person’s chance of surviving out-of-hospital cardiac arrest drops to about 10 percent for each minute that passes without defibrillation.

“CPR is a life-saving tool that should be in every person’s tool belt of life skills,” said Joe Krikorian, owner of Code 3 Life Support Education. “This is one way we hope to help the American Heart Association in its goal to educate one million Americans on CPR.”

For information visit www.code3life.com or call (626) 296-0090.

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