Carle Illinois Medicine students are working to train community members to save lives in the case of an emergency. They have partnered with the American Heart Association to distribute cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training kits in the Urbana-Champaign community. The students will also be helping train community members later this month.
“This opportunity is a way for our medical students to contribute to help community members in a hands-on learning opportunity where they use their medical training,” Deb Young, PharmD, Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Development said.
The CPR kits and trainings demonstrate the work that health care providers can do to improve patient quality of life outside of the hospital and clinics and increase access to life-saving care. Training non-health care providers on hands-only CPR ultimately increases survival from heart attacks in communities, especially rural areas.
More information on parts of their efforts can be found here.