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Empowering our Youth: How Teaching CPR in Schools Creates a Generation of First-Responders (and Saves Lives!) – 2016 AHA Symposium, Part 7

Lindsay Davis, Miss Ohio 2011 and patient advocate for SCA, discusses the importance of making CPR mandatory in high school. Through storytelling and statistics, Ms. Davis makes a compelling case for changing legislation to require CPR and training in schools.

Visit the following links for more videos from the 2016 AHA Symposium:

Part 1: When to Put on the Vest and When to Take it Off? Appropriate Use of Wearable Defibrillators

Part 2: Where Did the Leads Go? When is Subcutaneous ICD the Right Choice?

Part 3: Yes or No: Can My Patient With an ICD Have an MRI?

Part 4: Do the Genes Fit? When to Order Genetic Testing?

Part 5: Too Soon? Too Late? When to Refer for Catheter Ablation?

Part 6: Treating VT like Cancer: Entirely Noninvasive Cardiac Mapping and Ablation

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Medical Professional Education Center

Presenters

Lindsay Davis

Former Miss Ohio, National Heart Advocate and HCM Patient
New York, NY

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