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Article: Half-hour CPR class.(cardiopulmonary resuscitation)(Brief article)
- Article from:
- Nutrition Health Review
- Article date:
- March 22, 2006
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Researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center have found that a user-friendly, 30-minute, video-based cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training session is just as effective as the traditional three-hour to four-hour course in teaching basic life-saving techniques to laypersons. At six months after the training, people who took the shorter course performed CPR and used an automated external defibrillator (AED) just as well or better than those who take the traditional training.
These findings are the first to evaluate and document the effectiveness of long-term retention of the new 30-minute CPR-AED training. Dr. Paul Pepe, Chief of ...