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(Circulation. 2007;116:1337.)
© 2007 American Heart Association, Inc.

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	CARDIAC ARREST IN SCHOOLS, by Lotfi et al and DISSEMINATING CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION TRAINING BY DISTRIBUTING 35 000 PERSONAL MANIKINS AMONG SCHOOL CHILDREN, by Isbye et al.

 
Sudden cardiac death in the young is an uncommon but often devastating problem. Teaching children how to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and making automatic external defibrillators available at schools may both be beneficial programs for reducing adverse outcomes of cardiac arrests among students and adults. In this issue of Circulation, 2 separate manuscripts, by Lotfi and colleagues and Isbye and colleagues, address these important topics. Lotfi and colleagues report on the frequency of nontraumatic cardiac arrests on school premises, reported to cardiac arrest registries over a 16-year period, and determine the number of arrests among students, faculty, and other adults. They find that 2.6% of all public cardiac arrests occur at schools and also estimate the annual incidence of cardiac arrests in these populations at different school levels from preschool through college and university. Faculty and other adults have accounted for the majority of arrests on school premises. These data may be important for determining appropriate resource use, particularly when disseminating automatic external defibrillators. Isbye and colleagues describe their results with widespread training of school-age children in CPR using a personal resuscitation manikin. They distributed CPR manikins to 35 000 students ages 12 to 14 years, along with an instructional DVD and encouragement to train their friends and family members. This public health project was facilitated by a teacher and reported successful training of pupils. Approximately 20% of students returned a questionnaire after CPR training; their answers indicated that each student trained an average of 2.5 individuals, leading to . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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