Posted on 04/21/2015 10:54:46 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A California lawmaker has introduced a bill that would mandate that high school students receive CPR training before they graduate.
AB 319 will be heard in a committee hearing on Wednesday. Assemblyman Freddie Rodriguez, D-Chino, introduced the bill in February.
The bill calls for statewide school districts and charter schools to implement a curriculum on how to perform CPR and using an automated external defibrillator.
This training would be offered in physical education classes or another course needed for students to graduate.
The program would be developed by the American Heart Association or the American Red Cross. In emphasizing the reason for a law, the bill notes that only 10 percent of people who suffer cardiac arrest survive.
“If no CPR is provided or no defibrillation occurs within three to five minutes of collapse, the chances of survival drop,” the bill states.
Two students died in 2006 and 2014 in the Placentia-Yorba Linda School District to sudden cardiac arrest, leading that school district to become the first in the state to implement “hands only” CPR training.
Gee whiz, a bill out of the CA legislature that is actually not unhinged for a change.
Not a bad idea!
Nothing objectionable about this, except that school should be abolished.
Its a very good idea. Read a few articles saying its either infrequently helpful to where its six times more helpful than nothing. It doesn’t hurt anybody to earn it and it could save a life.
But what about the Heimlich maneuver.
So the last gasp of the baby boom generation is to tax the young and force them to learn how to save us. The me generation that demanded lower drinking ages when they were young, higher drinking ages when their children were young now demand everyone know how to save them when their ticker gives out.
I just finished CPR and general First Aid training for my college course. I’m not sure how I feel about this, however.
Not exactly, CPR was big in some areas like Washington State, more than 40 years ago and was pretty big nationally in the 1970s.
The drinking laws were lowered by men in their 50s ,60s, and 70s, back in the early 1970s.
The National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 was passed in the same year as the very first presidential election, in which all boomers were old enough to vote for president (1984).
Do you prefer the 1967 gun laws, or the new ones?
Better than diversity training for sure!
CPR training only takes an afternoon, and they’re simplified it greatly. If you can hum “Stayin’ Alive,” you can do it. I don’t think this is an unreasonable requirement for HS graduation (and I say that with two sons moving up the pipeline here in CA for graduation in a few years). They should make it simple to find a class, though, and free.
The article points out that one impetus to this step was the death of two students. Nothing said about elderly, although some students might want to save their parents or grandparents. Your write like you think you would never be the candidate for such lifesaving, or don’t care if you stay dead, or don’t have anyone around who would be interested in saving you.
Great to hear they are keeping to the 3 ‘R’s...
Reading, Righting, and see-pee-R’ing
As an RN, here is the problem I have- “mandate.” Did you know any idiots in high school? Any morons you wouldn’t trust loaning a piece of paper to? Kids so stupid you wondered how they stayed alive to make it to high school? More nanny state hang wringers...sometimes I just want to slap some sense into them.
CPR training is good for anyone, as is First Aid training, plus any updates. What would really benefit these school kids would be Water Safety and Basic Swim classes, plus First Aid. They are more likely to encounter problems on the beach vs having to go ‘mouth to mouth’ on somebody.
To get a driver’s license in Germany.....you have to take a complete first-aid course, which CPR is part of the training.
Completely bad idea.. mandatory anything from the government is bad and just leads to more.
They're called abdominal thrusts now. How to handle choking is also covered in an AHA CPR class.
For the layperson, AHA has stated that quality chest compressions (push hard, push fast!) are better than nothing, and has eliminated the mouth-to-mouth portion of CPR. And they teach rapid defibrillation with an AED, of course, which really works.
Agreed. Taking CPR is obviously a great idea. However, requiring CPR/First-Aid certification for certain occupations or obtaining certain credentials is one thing. Nanny state, protectionist edicts is another.
I wonder about kids that young having cardiac arrest. That suggests to me that something fundamentally wrong was going on.
I'm of mixed feelings about mandatory CPR training for everyone. It's a good idea for the kids who want to take it, but for the stupid, mentally unbalanced, etc., kids--I question the wisdom of requiring it.
Heimlich is part of cpr training
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