Penang CPR Society

The Penang CPR Society is a provider of resuscitation training for healthcare providers as well as the lay public.

For the healthcare providers, we provide training in Basic and Advanced Life Support (ALS) courses; and Basic Life Support (BLS) course only for the lay public. 

We are also the premier trainer of resuscitation instructors providing training and certification for BLS and ALS Instructors courses.

History

• The society officially came into being in the year 1998, on the initiative of the ever dynamic Dr. Ng Siew Hian, who was then the Consultant Anesthesiologist of Pulau Pinang Hospital, together with the combined effort of eleven (11) other multidisciplinary founding members. 
• The society has continuously evolved and progressed over the years till to date we have a membership of more than a hundred (100) people, and the provision of resuscitation training in order to save more lives remains our mission.

Aims

• We aim to achieve a standard of training and competence in resuscitation that will ensure the best possible outcome for patients in cardiac arrest, and to concentrate our abilities to achieve measures that will increase neurologically intact survival in these patients.
• We aim to promote the science of resuscitation, increase the knowledge and more importantly the response of the lay public in relation to CPR.
• We aim to work collaboratively with national and international partners in translating scientific evidence into current practice, formulation of guidelines, and the improvement of resuscitation training.