Mandatory CPR training for students may improve cardiac-arrest survival rate, MDs say.
A mandatory cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) program that started as a pilot project in Ottawa-area high schools is expanding to other Canadian schools. Besides CPR techniques, Grade 9 students are being taught about healthy lifestyles and how to recognize cardiac arrest. Emergency physician Justin Maloney, the program's principal architect, believes that in a decade this mandatory training will translate into increased bystander-initiated CPR and improved chances of survival for victims of cardiac arrest.
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