American Heart Association's CPR in Schools Initiative Aims to Reduce Disparities in CPR
September 15, 2014
September 15, 2014
DALLAS, Sept. 15 -- The American Heart Association issued the following news release:
Kids learning bystander CPR may be the answer to reducing death from the 420,000 cardiac arrests that occur outside of a hospital each year. Sadly, most of those victims die, often because bystanders don't know how to start CPR, or are afraid they'll do something wrong. Further complicating the issue are the disparities among Latinos and African-Americans, who are 30 percent less likely to have b . . .
Kids learning bystander CPR may be the answer to reducing death from the 420,000 cardiac arrests that occur outside of a hospital each year. Sadly, most of those victims die, often because bystanders don't know how to start CPR, or are afraid they'll do something wrong. Further complicating the issue are the disparities among Latinos and African-Americans, who are 30 percent less likely to have b . . .