Fabrice Muamba: Snapchat CPR lessons will save lives

A caller Snapchat diagnostic aimed astatine teaching cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) volition prevention lives, according to erstwhile footballer Fabrice Muamba.

Snapchat users tin find the diagnostic wrong the Lenses conception of their app.

The camera filter, created with the Red Cross charity, volition usher users done performing thorax compressions and quiz them connected what they person learned.

Muamba, whose bosom stopped connected the transportation successful 2012, said it was "very important" radical learned basal CPR.

"Speaking from my ain idiosyncratic experience, I was fortunate capable that it happened to maine wherever I had the champion aesculapian attraction that I could privation for," helium told BBC News.

"Young radical nowadays, they are retired astir of the clip with a friend. If [they] find themselves successful this concern and they don't cognize however to bash CPR, past they're successful superior trouble.

"But if you cognize however to bash CPR done this lens connected Snapchat, past you springiness your person a amended accidental of surviving abrupt cardiac arrest."

According to the International Liaison Committee connected Resuscitation, less than 20% of radical execute archetypal assistance contempt 70% of cardiac arrests happening successful beforehand of others.

Muamba, past 23, had a cardiac apprehension playing for Bolton Wanderers successful an FA Cup lucifer against Tottenham Hotspur.

Healthcare professionals spent six minutes trying to resuscitate him connected the pitch. He was "effectively dead" for 78 minutes.

"If this happened to maine successful my house, I don't deliberation we'd person this speech today," helium said.

"That's wherefore I'm moving with Snapchat to amusement radical the value of CPR and hopefully radical larn to bash it and assistance radical to past abrupt cardiac arrest."

The Apple and Google app stores already person galore apps that thatch CPR, including from St John Ambulance and the Resuscitation Council UK.

"Everybody has societal media," Muamba said. "Why not promote radical who person Snapchat to look into learning however to bash the basal accomplishment of CPR?

"We tin seizure your attraction done that and you larn thing from that.

"It is self-explanatory and casual to usage and it's each astir being proactive. It's astir being acceptable to spell and capable to bash it, alternatively than being frightened of not doing anything.

"You larn however to bash it and past erstwhile you find yourself successful that predicament, you're capable to retrieve what you learned - it's astir taking enactment and really being capable to bash it successful the archetypal place.

"So that's wherefore it's precise important we promote young people, we promote anyone who has Snapchat connected their phone, to larn however to bash CPR done the lens - due to the fact that it volition springiness radical a amended accidental of surviving abrupt cardiac arrest."

If idiosyncratic is unconscious and not breathing normally, you should telephone 999 and effort thorax compressions, according to the NHS: