Every second, of every day someone dies for the lack of CPR and First Aid training knowledge. How could this be? I mean most people have gone through many years of post-secondary education, but still so many lives are taken away. You go through all of your schooling, paying upwards of $100,000 but still no education on how to save an innocent person’s life. Shouldn’t everyone have the chance to be saved? People should not have to pay for CPR classes when they are older to learn the basic CPR and First Aid instructions. Recently, health advocates have tried to enforce CPR and First Aid training be a mandatory high school graduation requirement. For the reason the state government has control over school requirements, they have struggled to
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With CPR and First Aid training you could learn how to bring someone back to life, help them stop choking, or more simple procedures such as making a tourniquet to stop bleeding. If CPR is performed close to a cardiac arrest, choking, or whatever it may be can triple a person’s chance of survival. “Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the United States” (Monette, Michael. 2012). If teachers take a stand to advise students to be bold and encourage them to take action, than these statistics could easily change. Schools should enforce CPR and First Aid training as a graduation requirement because emergency situation can, and do, happen at any given time. With training, anyone could handle any situation. Some examples of the training exercises in CPR and First Aid include: first aid basics, medical, injury, and environmental emergencies, adult CPR, child CPR, and AED usage skills. The Mayo Clinic believes that CPR training in high schools has many benefits, one being the increase of survival rates from out-of-the-hospital cardiac arrests. CPR and First Aid training is one of the beneficial health behaviors that can be taught in high schools, which can be helpful to any person who finds themselves in a situation where they need …show more content…
These people do not take actions because, perhaps, they do not know CPR, but if it were a graduation requirement everyone who has a high school diploma would know how to perform in an urgent or emergent situation. The American Heart Association is leaning on the State’s government to enforce learning CPR and First Aid, to help enable people to save lives. With this requirement, there would be less bystanders and more educated people willing to help and know what to
With CPR and First Aid training you could learn how to bring someone back to life, help them stop choking, or more simple procedures such as making a tourniquet to stop bleeding. If CPR is performed close to a cardiac arrest, choking, or whatever it may be can triple a person’s chance of survival. “Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the United States” (Monette, Michael. 2012). If teachers take a stand to advise students to be bold and encourage them to take action, than these statistics could easily change. Schools should enforce CPR and First Aid training as a graduation requirement because emergency situation can, and do, happen at any given time. With training, anyone could handle any situation. Some examples of the training exercises in CPR and First Aid include: first aid basics, medical, injury, and environmental emergencies, adult CPR, child CPR, and AED usage skills. The Mayo Clinic believes that CPR training in high schools has many benefits, one being the increase of survival rates from out-of-the-hospital cardiac arrests. CPR and First Aid training is one of the beneficial health behaviors that can be taught in high schools, which can be helpful to any person who finds themselves in a situation where they need …show more content…
These people do not take actions because, perhaps, they do not know CPR, but if it were a graduation requirement everyone who has a high school diploma would know how to perform in an urgent or emergent situation. The American Heart Association is leaning on the State’s government to enforce learning CPR and First Aid, to help enable people to save lives. With this requirement, there would be less bystanders and more educated people willing to help and know what to