The American Heart Association has recently started a push to have state-required CPR classes as part of high school graduation curriculum.

Interviews with dispatchers indicate that minors are sometimes the most proactive and effective lay first responders. In a recent news article, 9-year-old Tristan saved his sister's life after she fell into a pool and was pulled out not breathing. He snapped into action and revived her using CPR he learned from the movie "Black Hawk Down."

High school students are prime candidates for performing CPR because they still have the general boldness of young children while being strong enough to perform compressions. Studies have shown that 83% of high-schoolers are very willing to provide bystander CPR. 86% of these students support mandatory CPR training in high school.

 

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Sudden Cardiac Arrest is a leading cause of death in the U.S.—but when ordinary people, not just doctors and EMTs, are equipped with the skills to perform CPR, the survival rate can double, or even triple.
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Source: AHA and StudentCPR.com

 

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