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CPR Week: Where and Who

Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Why schools?
  • Our schools are natural gateways to teach an entire generation how to respond to OHCA (out of hospital cardiac arrest).
  • Schools are intended to prepare students to contribute to their communities and assisting in an OHCA with CPR is an essential contribution.
  • Iowa is currently the only state to require CPR as a graduation requirement.
When has teaching a student CPR worked?
  • In 2010, a Wisconsin teenager was electrocuted by a 7,200-volt power line and he went into sudden cardiac arrest. The boy’s sister had been trained in CPR during school and began performing proper CPR on her brother.
  • When the EMTs arrived, the teen was still unresponsive but his sister was continuing to administer CPR until the first responders could take over. According to a fire captain, the girl saved her brother’s life.
Where can tweens, teens and schools learn more about the importance of CPR?
  • In 2009, the American Heart Association launched Be the Beat (http://www.bethebeat.heart.org/), a free online cardiac arrest awareness program that teaches middle school tweens and teens fun ways to learn the basics of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and how to use an automated external defibrillator (AED).
  • Video games, interactive quizzes and 100-beat-per-minute songs help teach teens and tweens what to do if someone collapses in sudden cardiac arrest. The website also features a section for teachers and administrators who want to implement a CPR/AED education program in their schools.
  • Free downloadable lesson plans and templates for creating and sustaining an in-school emergency response plan are included in the teacher/administrator portion of the site, www.BetheBeat.heart.org/schools.
The American Heart Association supports policies to include CPR training in schools - our kids can save lives if we train them!
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