Every Second Counts: CPR and AED Rescue

The challenge

People know CPR exists, yet they freeze. Canada sees about 60,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests each year, and only about 1 in 10 people survive. Bystanders hesitate: they wait for someone more qualified, fear doing harm or worry about legal consequences.

The instructional solution

A first-person branching simulation set in a crowded food court that trains the decision to act, not only the technique. A counter of seconds without CPR shows the cost of every hesitation, four thought freezes answer the doubts that stop bystanders, and the learner follows the 9-1-1 dispatcher, practises the compression rhythm with live feedback and uses an AED. Grounded in Merrill, Clark, Bandura and Hattie and Timperley, with explanatory feedback after every decision.