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Minnesota High School Students May Be Required To Learn CPR To Graduate
Bycurt_newport January 15, 2012October 25, 2012

Math, science, and english are all required subjects needed to receive a high school diploma, but now some health officials are calling for CPR to be added to that list. CPR can double or triple survival from cardiac arrest, and now the American Heart Association has drafted a bill that would make CPR training for…

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Teachers use AED To Save 12 Year Old Student
Bycurt_newport January 10, 2012October 25, 2012

We heard last week from a friend at Cook Children’s Hospital in Frisco, Texas, with the best news possible: Two teachers at a Maus Middle School using an automated external defibrillator (AED) had saved the life of a 12-year-old girl who had collapsed from sudden cardiac arrest. According to reports on nbcdfw.com and myfoxdfw.com, seventh-grader…

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