CPR | Hands-Only CPR training kiosk debuts at Indianapolis International Airport

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CPR Hands-Only CPR training kiosk debuts
at Indianapolis International Airport
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Last April, Matt Lickenbrock, a University of
Dayton student, saved the life of fellow student
Sean Ferguson using Hands-Only CPR, a lifesaving
technique that he learned from an instructional
airport kiosk. This week, Lickenbrock showed
Ferguson how to train in Hands-Only CPR at a new
kiosk at Indianapolis International
Airport. Seven U.S. sites will feature the
kiosks donated through American Heart
Associations national partnership with the
Anthem Foundation, the philanthropic arm of
Anthem, Inc. The kiosk features a touch screen
with a video that gives a brief how-to,
followed by a practice session and a 30-second
CPR test. With the help of a practice manikin, or
a rubber torso, the kiosk provides feedback about
the depth and rate of compressions and proper
hand placement factors that influence the
effectiveness of CPR.
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Cardiac arrest is a leading cause of death with
over 350,000 out-of-hospital cases occurring
every year in the U.S. More than 20 percent occur
in public places like airports, casinos and
sporting facilities. When a teen or adult has a
cardiac arrest, survival depends on immediately
receiving CPR from someone nearby. Survival rates
drop as much as 10 percent for every minute that
goes by without intervention. Bystander CPR
performed immediately after cardiac arrest can
double or triple a persons chance of surviving
cardiac arrest and, making these kiosks available
is another way we can help improve cardiac arrest
survival rates, said Craig Samitt, M.D.,
executive vice president and chief clinical
officer at Anthem. With Anthem support, a kiosk
is already installed at Chicago OHare
International and three more are planned for Las
Vegas McCarran International Hartsfield-Jackson
Atlanta International and Baltimore-Washington
International Thurgood Marshall.
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Two additional kiosks will be available at The
Global Center for Health Innovation in Cleveland,
Ohio and Anthems office in Washington,
D.C. The pilot program kiosk was installed in
2013 at Dallas/Ft. Worth International Airport by
AHA and American Airlines Occupation Health
Services. That kiosk has trained more than 25,000
travelers. Learn more about CPR. Bergenfield,
NJ, Jersey City, NJ, Livingston, NJ, and Queens,
New York and Gainesville, FL. Source
https//newsarchive.heart.org
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