Hydro One and the ACT Foundation striving to teach as many as possible
More Niagara students are learning C-P-R, and how to restart a heart using an A-E-D device, or automated external defibrillator.
Janet Holt-Killingbeck is with Hydro One, who teamed up with the ACT (Advanced Coronary Treatment) Foundation, to teach students at Notre Dame College in Welland yesterday.
She says students learned on mannequins. "They're able to actually feel what it would feel like if they were having to do compressions, and they're able to truly learn and train properly, so that they know the speed that the compressions need to be, as well as far as they need to compress."
They've trained 3-million students so far.
"There's been 76,000 students that have been trained in the Niagara Region, and that's including 700 students trained this summer," she says.
To use the A-E-D device, a user places electric diodes with handles on a victim's chest before trying to start the heart.
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