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The Womanikin attachment that can help people practice that life-saving move on women is free and can be downloaded via a tool kit available online.

In CPR instructions on the Womanikin website, its creators write, \"Yes, this will mean you are touching her left breast. Don't worry. You might save her life.\"

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Knowing how to perform CPR on a woman in cardiac arrest is critically important because heart disease is the leading cause of death for women in the U.S.

Among men and women, more than 320,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests -- when the brain cannot pump blood to the brains, lungs and other organs -- occur each year in the U.S., according to the American Heart Association (AHA).

JOAN Creative, which launched Womanikin during National CPR Awareness Week, has set a goal of having a Womanikin attachment in every CPR training school in the U.S. by the end of 2020.

\"I am passionate about finding more ways to get people thinking about CPR, trained in CPR and surviving,\" said Blewer. \"The more we can do to get more people trained in CPR for everyone, the better the outcomes will be.\"

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