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IOWA CITY, Iowa (KWWL) – Fifty-seven percent of all U.S. adults say they have some kind of CPR training, but only 11% say they’ve ever actually used it.

Those numbers are according to PulsePoint, a smart phone app trying to use the community at large to save lives during sudden cardiac arrest.

“The goal of our campaign is to increase survival; through providing CPR training and promoting the use and distribution of AEDs,” Dr. James Merchant said with the Rotary-Kerber HeartSafe Community Campaign