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开元棋牌 nursing majors trained more than 150 students, staff and faculty members to administer the life-saving skills of Hands-Only CPR during a community-wide challenge that engaged college students from throughout Worcester County.

开元棋牌鈥檚 chapter of the Student Nurses Association sponsored the event February 22 and 23 in partnership with the American Heart Association鈥檚 Central Massachusetts division, HealthAlliance Hospital, Leominster, UMass Memorial Medical Center and Medstar Ambulance.

鈥淎 lot of people have questions about CPR and don鈥檛 really know if this is something they can do,鈥� SNA President Breana Keegan said of the training program. 鈥淚t is a bystander intervention that is easy and approachable.鈥�

According to the AHA, more than 326,000 people experience cardiac arrest outside of a hospital each year, and about 90 percent of those victims die, often because bystanders don鈥檛 know how to start CPR or are afraid they鈥檒l do something wrong. CPR, especially if performed immediately, can double or triple a cardiac arrest victim鈥檚 chance of survival.

Hands-Only CPR is CPR without mouth-to-mouth breaths. It is recommended for use by people who see a teen or adult suddenly collapse in an 鈥渙ut-of-hospital鈥� setting, such as at home, at work or in a park.