Glasgow students joined forces with the Scottish Ambulance to attempt a world record.

The Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) and Save a Life for Scotland (SALFS) called for members of the public to learn CPR and help set a Guinness World Record on Thursday.

A livestream event - Restart a Heart Live – was hosted on YouTube and needed 1,500 people to tune into one of the sessions in order to set the new record.

Students at Glasgow Caledonian University rolled up their sleeves to take part as they hosted their own CPR training event on campus while viewing the online session.

Sam learned how to perform CPR in an emergency Sam learned how to perform CPR in an emergency (Image: Sourced)

The experience proved to be very popular with more than 100 people taking part including student Sam Hurt, 31, who felt more “confident” in saving a life afterwards.

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He told the Glasgow Times: “I was taking part in the Restart a Heart event where I had a go on doing CPR on one of the mannequins.

“It was really helpful, a couple of the students are teaching us the do’s and don’ts so it is really useful for us to get some practice outside of class.

“It definitely made me feel more confident if that scenario came up in real life, even though I am just a student these kinds of things could happen to me.

“Knowledge dispels fears, the more you know about it the better you feel.”

Currently only one in ten people in Scotland survive an out of hospital cardiac arrest and the likelihood of that person surviving drops by 10% for every minute someone does not attempt CPR. Currently only one in ten people in Scotland survive an out of hospital cardiac arrest and the likelihood of that person surviving drops by 10% for every minute someone does not attempt CPR. (Image: Sourced)

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Across the country schools, colleges, and universities took part in the world record attempt as they held their own CPR sessions while tuning into Youtube.

Members of the public were urged to join one of the sessions which ran on the hour from 9am to 8pm.

The Scottish Ambulance Service is now anxiously awaiting the results from final figures and adjudication from officials at the Guinness Book of World Records.

In addition to CPR training, each 25-minute session provided education on how to use a defibrillator and what to expect when you dial 999.

The world record attempt was led by Lee Myers, SAS Paramedic Clinical Team Leader, who has trained hundreds of primary and secondary students across the Scottish Borders in CPR skills and defibrillator awareness over his career so far.

Student paramedics taught people on campus how to perform CPR and encouraged them to help the Scottish Ambulance break the world recordStudent paramedics taught people on campus how to perform CPR and encouraged them to help the Scottish Ambulance break the world record (Image: Sourced)

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Lee said: “Currently only one in ten people in Scotland survive an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and the likelihood of that person surviving drops by 10% for every minute someone does not attempt CPR.

"The key to more people surviving is training in schools and with the public.

"Through Restart a Heart Live we want to train as many people as possible in how to do hands-only CPR and how to use a defibrillator.

“By taking part in this training, we hope that people will have the confidence to attempt CPR on someone whose life depends on it.”