West Midlands Ambulance service hopes the workshops give people confidence to save someone's life.
Paramedics have been teaching shoppers how to help somebody if they have a cardiac arrest during free workshops.
West Midlands Ambulance Service staff demonstrated CPR techniques at Touchwood shopping centre in Solihull. Ollie McCormack from Erdington Ambulance hub said they hoped to give people confidence with life-saving techniques.The sessions formed part of an annual campaign called , led by the Resuscitation Council UK, which aims to improve poor survival rates for out-of-hospital cardiac arrests.Mr McCormack said: "You're not going to do any harm if you're trying to save someone's life.""It's getting it out there, getting people aware of what they should do and how they should do it, and the importance of doing it should they need to," he said.
He added shoppers had gained confidence from the demonstrations, with some sharing stories of carrying out CPR on patients who survived.
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