WHAT WE DO

Our plan 

Recruiting EMTs interested in bringing CPR education to statistically more vulnerable communities (we will utilize data from OCEMS to identify these communities). We have developed a course tailored towards hands-only CPR, teaching essential skills. By connecting with local community centers (churches, mosques, temples) and amass groups of people willing to be educated in CPR. Our instructors go to these local centers and help teach CPR to the community, while collecting feedback data from participants and continually improving our course/involvement with the community.

Our Course

Community members that undergo our CPR training will learn the steps and techniques to perform hands-only CPR, a potentially life-saving intervention that will assist one’s heart in pumping blood until EMS services arrive at the scene. By modifying each lesson in the CPR curriculum to better resonate with our targeted audience, we hope that the importance of cardiac arrest prevention gets through to the community and touches the bottom of their heart. As an example, it is recommended that citizens replay the song “Stayin’ Alive,” recorded at 110 bpm, in their head as they are performing chest compressions, to ensure they stay in rhythm. We recognize that citizens in POC communities may lack familiarity with this specific song and would prefer to learn CPR to the tune of a cultural piece also recorded at 110 bpm. 

Course topics

Our course will discuss some of the common myths behind CPR, a brief information about the science behind CPR and Cardiac Emergencies, and the opportunity for the audience to practice compressions hands on mannequins.