CPRiS

Teaching CPR (cardio-pulmonary resuscitation) In Schools

Email: cpris@medsin.org

National Coordinator: Julia Prague

Aims:

  • To increase the number of lay people who are trained in CPR
  • To increase the number of lay people who start bystander CPR at a cardiac arrest in the community
  • To increase the number who survive a cardiac arrest in the community from ~2% anywhere up to ~50%
  • To teach life saving skills in schools
  • To teach schoolchildren about the risk factors for heart disease
  • To give medical students the opportunity to obtain current and fluent resuscitation skills, and practice their paediatric communication skills
  • To create access to Medicine

Purpose:

  • To increase the number of people who survive their cardiac arrest in the community each year. There is a large literature base to prove that this is possible through the CPRiS model

Shocking statistics – the need for CPRiS:

  • In the UK only ~2% of cardiac arrest victims in the community survive
  • Whereas ~50% of cardiac arrest victims in the community survive in places where CPR is taught in schools
  • Therefore we are basically killing ~48% of our cardiac arrest victims
  • ~50% of cardiac arrests are witnessed but few start CPR
  • Only ~1% of the British population knows how to give CPR
  • If CPR is not started within THREE minutes of the arrest the casualty will almost certainly die
  • Early initiation of bystander CPR can lead to a ~50% increase in the likelihood of survival

EVENT:

National CPRiS Conference - 10th-11th February 2007, Liverpool.

The conference is for any medical student groups who are teaching BLS in schools, and will include a weekend of sharing ideas and experiences, networking, meeting other CPRiS groups, advanced training and having lots of fun together. For more information please email cprisconference@gmail.com

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