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Kmatta/Getty Images(BUFFALO, N.Y.) In the aftermath of Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin's shocking collapse and cardiac arrest during Monday night's game against the Cincinnati Bengals, expert medical organizations highlighted the importance of bystanders learning to perform lifesaving CPR. "All of us need to learn CPR. People don't realize that if someone is unconscious and not breathing and doesn't appear to be alive, that CPR is essential," Dr. Benjamin Abella, director of the Center for Resuscitation Science at the University of Pennsylvania, told ABC News. During a cardiac arrest, the heart stops beating properly. More than 350,000 people suffer from cardiac arrest outside of the hospital each year, according to the American Heart Association. Of those cardiac arrests, 70% happen in homes and nearly 20% happen in public settings. But less than half of those who have a cardiac arrest outside of a hospital are given CPR by people nearby even though ....