CPR training kits to be provided to all Mississippi high schools

JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) – The American Coronary heart Affiliation and the Mississippi Healthcare Alliance got here collectively to coach highschool academics how one can train and carry out CPR on the Jackson Hearth Academy on Wednesday.

“We have now labored with the Mississippi Healthcare Alliance to supply CPR kits to each highschool throughout the state to supply the assets the faculties want to coach the scholars,” Jenifer Hopping of the American Coronary heart Affiliation stated.

In 2014, laws was handed in Mississippi that requires all highschool college students to obtain CPR coaching to be able to graduate.

With the assistance of CPR coaching kits, college students might be taught CPR, AED, and choking reduction expertise in only one 30-minute course.

“Seventy % of cardiac arrests occur within the house and never within the hospital, so that you want any individual proper there subsequent to the sufferer who is ready to present this life-saving remedy and assist with that primary chain of survival,” Christy McGregor of the Mississippi Healthcare Alliance stated.

In keeping with the American Coronary heart Affiliation, “greater than 350,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests happen in the US annually and fewer than half of those individuals obtain the quick assist that they want earlier than skilled assist arrives. However quick CPR might double or triple a cardiac arrest sufferer’s likelihood of survival.”

For extra data on CPR Coaching Classes in Mississippi, contact the Metro Jackson American Coronary heart Affiliation at 601-321-1216.

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