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This measure could improve odds in a life-or-death situation. Having a school full of students trained in CPR means more lives could be saved everywhere. The American Heart Association says 1 in 5 people who die from cardiac arrest could have been saved if someone performed CPR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Laurie Giordano smiles remembering her son, Zach Polsenberg. Four years ago, Zach, who was 16 years old, suffered a heat stroke during football practice at Riverdale High School. He died about two weeks later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI miss him more now than I ever did before,\u201d\u201d Giordano said. \u201cI miss him more every day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Although CPR would not have saved Zach\u2019s life, his mom says there are cases where people suffering from heat stroke could be saved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt\u2019s helpful,\u201d Giordano said. \u201cOne of the things that you need to learn to look for and obviously breathing in a pulse are the first things that you really need to ascertain in an emergency situation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Moving forward, students will have those tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Under a new law that goes into effect Thursday, Florida school districts have to provide basic first aid and CPR training for 9th and 11th-graders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Captain Matt Miszewski of Charlotte County Fire & EMS Training says this will only help save lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been proven that just doing compressions is a benefit to the patient until the healthcare provider like firefighters and EMS can get there and take over care at that point.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Miszewski told us, when someone goes into cardiac arrest, the chance of survival goes down 10% every minute that goes by, so the earlier the better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt would be great if they never used it, but it just takes one person who knows it to save someone\u2019s life,\u201d Giordano said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anyone who wants to learn CPR nearby or online can visit American Red Cross<\/a> or American Heart Association<\/a> websites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Your high school student will have a new class to take in the fall. Beginning Thursday, schools will be required to give high school students CPR and first aid training.… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":49457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[453],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49456"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49458,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49456\/revisions\/49458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}