Even if you’ve never been trained to respond to a cardiac emergency, even if you’re alone when it happens and can’t call 911, and even though you’re nervous and scared, here are six ways you can help save someone’s life.

Cleveland Clinic cardiologist Timothy Williams, M.D., knows that it can happen. A friend suffered a cardiac arrest while watching football. "His wife had never taken a course in CPR," cardiopulmonary resuscitation, he says. "But she called 911. They told her how to take care of him until an EMS team arrived with a portable defibrillator that restarted his heart and saved his life. You might think that picking up the…

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