If there was an emergency and someone was having a heart attack, could you perform life-saving CPR?

New from the American Heart Association is CPR Anytime, a learn-at-home program teaching basic CPR skills through a Skills Practice DVD and an inflatable practice mannequin. The home instruction takes 22 minutes, as opposed to the formal 4 hour training classes.

The program’s effectiveness was studied by Science Direct, to see if training for CPR could be adequately accomplished through a home learning program.

Older adults learned the fundamental skills of CPR with this training program in about half an hour. If properly distributed, this type of training could produce a significant increase in the number of lay responders who can perform CPR.

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