Comments on: Study: 9-year-olds can learn to perform CPR http://blogs.ajc.com/better-health/2009/07/31/study-9-year-olds-can-learn-to-perform-cpr/ Advice and suggestions for taking care of you and your family Mon, 27 Sep 2010 23:18:14 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Sharon McEachern http://blogs.ajc.com/better-health/2009/07/31/study-9-year-olds-can-learn-to-perform-cpr/comment-page-1/#comment-1197 Sharon McEachern Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:25:16 +0000 http://blogs.ajc.com/better-health/?p=928#comment-1197 I think it is a wonderful idea to teach kids CPR in school. But although some experts say we have unacceptably low rates of CPR in our country, they still claim that it's more important to teach CPR to people between 65 and 75, those most likely to suffer cardiac arrest, than to teach children. It's the victim's spouses who need to know CPR, they say. But I agree with Ethic Soup blog which says that the more people -- both young and old -- who know how to perform CPR, the better. "There could be a kid nearby who could perform CPR more effectively than an emotionally trumatized spouse," Read more at: http://www.ethicsoup.com/2009/08/kids-can-save-lives-even-the-young-should-learn-cpr.html I think it is a wonderful idea to teach kids CPR in school. But although some experts say we have unacceptably low rates of CPR in our country, they still claim that it’s more important to teach CPR to people between 65 and 75, those most likely to suffer cardiac arrest, than to teach children. It’s the victim’s spouses who need to know CPR, they say.

But I agree with Ethic Soup blog which says that the more people — both young and old — who know how to perform CPR, the better. “There could be a kid nearby who could perform CPR more effectively than an emotionally trumatized spouse,” Read more at:

http://www.ethicsoup.com/2009/08/kids-can-save-lives-even-the-young-should-learn-cpr.html

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