In Washington, the Senate recently passed a bill to fund CPR and defibrillator training programs in schools.
She had been defended for months by Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin, who suffered a cardiac arrest on the field in 2023 during a game against the Cincinnati Bengals.
Called the HEARTS Act for “Cardiomyopathy Education, Awareness, Research, and Health Training in Schools,” the House passed similar legislation earlier this fall, and President Biden, who met with Hamlin in the Oval Office during his advocacy campaign for the House bill. , plans to sign it before leaving office next month.
“Since my cardiac arrest, I have had the honor of working with partners who understand how important CPR training and access to AEDs are to saving lives,” Hamlin saidusing the official acronym for what is commonly called a defibrillator.
“I am very grateful to Senator Schumer for his work making his common-sense legislation a priority. My journey has shown us that no one expects a cardiac arrest to happen and we all need to be prepared for it.
Cardiac arrest is a strange phenomenon in that it is a death sentence, but one that can be easily cured provided there is someone nearby who is trained in the use of an AED and knowing how to perform CPR.
Similar efforts to defend Hamlin were undertaken in soccer stadiums, rather than classrooms, after the sport suffered a similar near-catastrophe when Denmark’s star attacking midfielder collapsed on the field following a cardiac arrest during a match at the European Championships in 2020.
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At the next edition of the tournament last summer in Germany, all stadiums had stands where fans could learn CPR and how to use the defibrillator. voluntarily.
THE Get Trained, Save Lives, Campaign was a partnership between the EURO Championships and the European Resuscitation Council to raise awareness of sudden cardiac arrest and the importance of bystander CPR.
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By the end of the tournament, 38,000 fans, stadium employees and team personnel had been certified as trained in the rescue maneuver.
GNN has also reported about lives saved by literal hours of CPR, rather than the 20 to 30 seconds typically shown in hospital soap operas.
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