Our Mission
One business, one mission: put lifesaving skill in as many hands as possible.
Carolina Pulse is a business first: we certify healthcare workers, students, and professionals in Chapel Hill in AHA BLS and Heartsaver CPR. That work is what pays for everything else.
What it funds is a free, volunteer-led CPR education initiative for students in North Carolina's underserved, high-response-time communities, the places where EMS can take nearly twice as long to arrive, and a trained bystander matters most.
North Carolina already requires CPR instruction for high school graduation, part of the Healthful Living Essential Standards under state law. We volunteer alongside schools already teaching this required unit, adding trained, AHA-certified instructors and more hands-on practice time than one teacher and a couple of manikins can usually offer. See our North Carolina Schools page for details.
Two things, same goal: certify professionals who need it for work, and put real CPR skill in the hands of as many people as possible, especially where it's needed most.
Why we do this
When a heart stops, the first few minutes decide everything.
In rural North Carolina, EMS takes far longer to arrive. Until it does, a trained bystander is the only thing standing between a cardiac emergency and a good outcome.
Carolina Pulse certifies healthcare workers, students, and professionals in Chapel Hill in AHA BLS CPR. That work funds what we care about most: free, volunteer-led CPR education for students in the underserved, high-response-time communities across North Carolina that need it most. One business, one mission, put lifesaving skill in as many hands as possible.
Every minute without CPR costs a life its odds.
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Longer for serious rural EMS calls than the national average
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Get bystander CPR before EMS arrives, fewer than half
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Immediate CPR can double or triple the chance of survival
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Of cardiac arrests happen at home, often in front of family