FIRE COMMISSIONER NICHOLAS SCOPPETTA ANNOUNCES
NEW FDNY CPR TRAINING UNIT AND PARTNERSHIP
WITH THE AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION
New unit established to help teach CPR to students
and community members- introduces American Heart Association
Family & Friends CPR Learning program to students
attending the FDNY High School for
Fire and Life Safety in Brooklyn
Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta will join the American
Heart Association at the FDNY High School for Fire and Life
Safety in Brooklyn to announce the creation of the new FDNY
CPR Training Unit and a new partnership with the American
Heart Association. The unit—the first of it’s
kind for the FDNY—will be staffed with FDNY-EMS instructors
and will offer free life-saving CPR training to schools
and various community organizations beginning as early as
May.
The creation of the unit is in response to the PHENYCS
study, which found that over the last 10 years, despite
a doubling of ambulance tours, a reduction in response times
by 50% and implementation of the first-responder defibrillation
program, overall cardiac survival rate in New York City
is still only 3.1%.
As part of the announcement the American Heart Association’s Family
and Friends CPR Learning Program will be demonstrated.
It is a revolutionary approach to teaching the basic
skills of CPR, a self-directed educational experience
that can be completed in less than 30 minutes.
WHO: |
Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta, Chief of the
EMS Bureau John Peruggia, members of the FDNY CPR
Training unit, AHA National Emergency Cardiac Care
Volunteer and Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency
Medicine & Director of Prehospital Education,
Department of Emergency Medicine at the State University
of NY at Stony Brook, Edward R. Stapleton, New York
City Department of Education Health Education Unit
Director, Fred Kaeser and students from the FDNY
High School for Fire and Life Safety |
WHAT: |
Announcement of new FDNY Training Unit
followed by a CPR program demonstration |
WHERE: |
FDNY High School for Fire and Life Safety at Thomas
Jefferson High School
400 Pennsylvania Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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WHEN: |
Tuesday, April 12, 2005 at 10:00AM |
Contact: Francis X. Gribbon / David Billig
(FDNY) (718) 999-2056
http://www.nyc.gov/fdny
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