When a person in the street suffers from an acute cardiac arrest, there is a need for CPR. If the first person that comes by is deaf or is hearing with difficulties, it is a challenging situation [1]. WHO has estimated 360 million individuals in the world with disabling hearing loss out of which 91% are adults. The traditional view of deafness is based on a pathological perspective rather than cultural [2]. This often misunderstood community of patients have their own unique sign language, values and experiences. Untrained deaf persons showed skills to perform CPR [3]. In the present case, CPR can be performed but the deaf person can not hear the instructions from the heart starter. The Swedish Heart and Lung Association Botkyrka Salem discussed a project to develop CPR security for people with hearing difficulties. The Association for hearing-impaired and deaf children and their families (FHDBF) was contacted for a corporate project in order to educate their deaf members in CPR.
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