By KPTV Staff
The American Heart Association, Beaverton School District and Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue partnered to teach Five Oaks Middle School students CPR.
The seventh and eighth grade students were taught how to recognize an emergency and then how to do hands-only CPR.
Hands-only CPR is CPR without mouth-to-mouth breaths. It is recommended for use by people who see someone suddenly collapse in an out-of-hospital setting, such as at home, at work or in a park.
High school students volunteered to teach the younger students, stressing the importance of learning how to possibly save someone’s life.
“It’s very rewarding,” said Beaverton High School student Sierra Milligan. “It’s good to know if my family member did go down somewhere these kids could help.”
Frank Trujilo with Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue said teaching students how to perform CPR benefits the entire community.
“It makes it a lot safer knowing that there are lots of kids out there who know how to do CPR and who know how to perform appropriately and have the confidence to perform CPR when needed,” he said.
This is the first year that Oregon has required students in grades seven through 12 to receive instruction in CPR and the use of AEDs using training developed by the American Heart Association, the American Red Cross or other organizations with nationally recognized training protocols.
This training is required to happen as part of health class or physical education class curriculum.
Additional training session took place throughout the state of Oregon. Firefighters say 35,000 students in Oregon will learn CPR this year.
Experts say every hour in the U.S. approximately 38 people will have a cardiac arrest event outside of the hospital, and nine out of 10 will not survive. CPR has proven to double or even triple a victim’s chance of survival.
The free CPR training kits for the Beaverton School District were made possible by funding from the Spirit Mountain Community Fund.
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