ZOWIE-WOWIE - what a day at
Choices!
Thanks to our great NHS intern,
Mahika Jhangiani, her Mom, and her little brother Arnav, all of our students
got some 'hand only' CPR and AED training today at Choices.Everybody was super
excited about it AND about the fact that getting actual CPR and AED
CERTIFICATION if available for middle schoolers.
SO-OOOOO, thanks to a funder that
we located, we're going to pay to have all those Choices kids who want to learn
this life-saving training CERTIFIED through the American Heart Association
branch in Westport. They'll come to Choices to do the certification training so
it's going to be super convenient for everyone.
When? We're going to schedule this
training the last week of school, when we have a week full of half days.More
info to come, in the meantime, enjoy these pics - nice to know that our kids
are ready, willing and able to help with life-saving CPR and AED should an
emergency occur.
When? We're going to schedule this
training the last week of school, when we have a week full of half days.More
info to come, in the meantime, enjoy these pics - nice to know that our kids
are ready, willing and able to help with life-saving CPR and AED should an
emergency occur.
Here's the GANG - including our
practice dummies - at the end of today's 'hands off" CPR training! That's
Brayan and Isaiah displaying the portable AED device - hard to believe that
such a little machine can have such life-saving potential. Mahika is in the
front row, with the red polo shirt and long black hair. She's definitely one of
the best role models EVER! That's her younger brother Arnav, front right, with
the cast on his arm.
These 'skillful' hands belong to Nycole who was
great at administering the compressions.
William administering CPR as Andreas looks on
Mahika and her brother explaining
how and where to attached the shock pads for administering AED.
Alex, Mary (our future doctor), and
Abril learning how to use the AED unit.
L-R Andreas practicing on 'dummy'
with Alek, Oscar and Christopher looking on and checking the proper CPR hand
position.
Alek's turn to administer CPR with
Oscar looking on intently.
You know it's interesting stuff
when Sammy gets involved - here Sam is taking instruction from Mahika involving
the 'rhythm' of the compressions.
Setting up the AED machine was
really interesting - once you place the pads on the victims chest, you turn on
the AED machine and a 'voice' then leads you through the process. However,
everyone learned that when the shock is administered you need to "STAND
BACK," which means to remove all hand contact with the victim.
Kids don't usually pay THIS much
attention, but Mahika's presentation really had them listening.
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