Overview

• Hospital de Cruces in Barakaldo held hands-on sessions to teach basic maneuvers and AED use, with staff noting survival falls about 10% for every minute without compressions and that fewer than 40% of witnessed arrests in Euskadi receive immediate help.
• More than 8,500 people across Spain and one site in Colombia attempted a mass CPR practice in Gijón, training to songs like Stayin’ Alive and La Macarena to keep a steady compression rhythm.
• In Argentina, cardiovascular disease accounts for 30.3% of annual deaths and sudden cardiac death occurs at roughly one per 1,000 residents yearly, yet only about 10% of out‑of‑hospital cardiac arrests receive bystander CPR.
• Public agencies in Argentina, including the CABA Security Ministry and the municipalities of Junín and Trenque Lauquen, are offering free October courses as interest grows in staff training and acquiring AEDs for crowded venues.
• Evidence-based guidance highlights music at 100–120 BPM to maintain compression quality, studies suggesting up to a 30% boost in survival odds with music‑assisted training, and estimates that immediate CPR plus early defibrillation within 10 minutes can raise recovery rates to about 70%.