This past Saturday, Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS) and Jackson Health Systems hosted Second Annual CPR Day Miami at 10 District schools where more than 3,000 participants - 11 years old and up – learned to administer CPR on adults and infants. Recognizing that 70 percent of Americans have no CPR training, the District is trying to improve that statistic every year as an additional 1,000 students, parents and members of the community signed up this year.
“As the largest educational organization in this community, we are educating folks today, providing life-saving CPR lessons that are really crucial because a cardiac emergency can occur at any time,” said Schools Superintendent Dr. Jose L. Dotres, who noted that he once administered CPR during an emergency. “We want students, parents and grandparents to be prepared in a moment of crisis and that is why this is so important.”
The 30-minute training sessions, organized in collaboration with the American Heart Association and the American Red Cross of Greater Miami and the Keys, provided hands-only CPR training and basic tips and instruction on how to respond to cardiac emergencies involving infants and adults. Participants also learned about infant choking and adult choking emergencies.
An instructor teaches participants how to use perform CPR at Ponce de Leon Middle School
TOP CAPTION; Participants
at Ponce de Leon Middle School reviewing CPR protocol.
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