CPR AED | CPR program expected to train 1 million students

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CPR AED CPR program expected to train 1
million students
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More than 330,000 middle school students in
low-income areas learned CPR during the last
school year through a nationwide American Heart
Association program supported by Ross Dress for
Less. One middle school near each of the more
than 1,100 Ross Dress for Less stores received a
free CPR in Schools Training Kit if at least half
of students were eligible for free or
reduced-price lunches. Teaching materials and 10
inflatable manikins allowed each kit to train
hundreds of seventh-grade and eighth-grade
students at each school during the 2014-2015
school year. Teachers at qualifying schools also
had access to AHA online resources, volunteer
mentors and CPR in Schools staff.
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Students knowledge about CPR and how to perform
it improved, with students on average getting
half of questions correct on a pre-test compared
with 84 percent correct on a post-test. Nearly
every teacher who participated 99 percent
said they would do the program again. During the
2015-2016 school year, an additional 250 high
schools will receive two free CPR in Schools
Training Kits. The grant application deadline is
Sept. 30. Hispanics and African-Americans are 30
percent less likely than whites to receive
bystander CPR, according to research. And the
odds of someone in cardiac arrest receiving
bystander CPR in a low-income African-American
neighborhood is 50 percent lower than in a
high-income white neighborhood.
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The program is expected to train more than 1
million students in CPR, according to AHA
estimates. Learn more about CPR AED.
Bergenfield, NJ, Jersey City, NJ, Livingston, NJ,
and Queens, New York. Source
https//newsarchive.heart.org
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