Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of more than 17.3 million annual deaths, representing 31% of global mortality rate, with nearly 801000 American deaths resulting from cardiac arrest in 2013 (WHO, 2016 & Mozaffarian et al., 2016). Similar trend exists in Ireland with 10000 reported cases of cardiovascular related deaths and associated 5000 annual cardiac arrest mortality (IHF, 2016). Although the direct and
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of more than 17.3 million annual deaths, representing 31% of global mortality rate, with nearly 801000 American deaths resulting from cardiac arrest in 2013 (WHO, 2016 & Mozaffarian et al., 2016). Similar trend exists in Ireland with 10000 reported cases of cardiovascular related deaths and associated 5000 annual cardiac arrest mortality (IHF, 2016). Although the direct and