Posted on 05/25/2009 4:09:30 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
BOSTON (AP) ―
Beacon Hill lawmakers are weighing bills to beef up CPR-requirements at schools and require heart tests for student athletes.
The Committee on Education will hold a public hearing at the State House on Tuesday to look at more than a dozen proposals, including a bill that would require all students to be taught cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
Another bill would require coaches to have a CPR certificate and know how to use heart defibrillators. A third would force students who want to participate in interscholastic athletic programs to undergo an electrocardiogram first.
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Seems like a good idea to me.
Why?
The American Heart Association is touting how ineffective it is for cardiac incidences.
Why can’t this be an individual’s decision.
I don’t see any harm in it. However I think its more important that they teach reading, writing, and arithmetic first.
Yes, yes, great idea. Govt. schools cannot teach reading, writing or arithmetic, so why not teach CPR instead.
Maybe this will cut down on sex ed classes as well (which judging by out of wedlock births are successful and dovetail nicely into the welfare state).
Great. Let’s hope they have better success than they’ve had at teaching English, Math, History, etc.
As if we don’t have enough contact sports already.
Did you hear about the two first graders talking? One said, I found a condom on the veranda this weekend, the other kids says - Really? what a veranda?
I don’t see any harm in it. However I think its more important that they teach reading, writing, and arithmetic first.
One cqn always take a cpr course, that is what the red cross does. I dont think it is the government’s job to provide it.
I dont care if they teach cpr, but it should be mandated they teach about personal finance, credit pros and cons, debt, hyperinflation etc.... If our kids understood this better they wouldnt vote in these idiots as they get older.
It’s a more useful skill than putting a condom on a banana.
Coaches and teachers I can understand, but if anyone has had to do CPR it takes a lot of strenght to keep it up for more than a minute or two if your doing it right so I’ll be sexist and say the boys in High school could probably handle it but am not too sure about the girls. When I had to do it in the hospital, it was a relief when inhalation therapy showed up.
It’s a more useful skill than putting a condom on a banana.
I am not in favor of that either. And if that is the sort of comparison we are making then the system is at the bottom of the barrel.
But you knew that.
You are preaching to the Choir, I saw a lot of these clueless kids when I was an NCO.
Good deal......
hmmmm... From the American Heart Association ...
CPR facts and statistics
About 80 percent of all out-of-hospital cardiac arrests occur in private residential settings, so being trained to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) can mean the difference between life and death for a loved one.
Effective bystander CPR, provided immediately after cardiac arrest, can double a victim’s chance of survival.
CPR helps maintain vital blood flow to the heart and brain and increases the amount of time that an electric shock from a defibrillator can be effective.
Approximately 95 percent of sudden cardiac arrest victims die before reaching the hospital.
Death from sudden cardiac arrest is not inevitable. If more people knew CPR, more lives could be saved.
Brain death starts to occur four to six minutes after someone experiences cardiac arrest if no CPR and defibrillation occurs during that time.
If bystander CPR is not provided, a sudden cardiac arrest victim’s chances of survival fall 7 percent to 10 percent for every minute of delay until defibrillation. Few attempts at resuscitation are successful if CPR and defibrillation are not provided within minutes of collapse.
Coronary heart disease accounts for about 446,000 of the over 864,000 adults who die each year as a result of cardiovascular disease.
There are 294,851 emergency medical services-treated out-of-hospital cardiac arrests annually in the United States.
There are about 138,000 coronary heart disease deaths within one hour of symptom onset each year in the United States.
Sudden cardiac arrest is most often caused by an abnormal heart rhythm called ventricular fibrillation (VF).
Cardiac arrest can also occur after the onset of a heart attack or as a result of electrocution or near-drowning.
When sudden cardiac arrest occurs, the victim collapses, becomes unresponsive to gentle shaking, stops normal breathing and after two rescue breaths, still isn’t breathing normally, coughing or moving.
yep- it’s a great idea.
when I go down (and many of us will, it’s just a matter of time) I hope the folks around me know CPR, and maybe even ACLS, too.
Too much real knowledge is never a bad thing!
CPR in the field without an AED is essentially useless.
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