PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Lyttle, J.
TI  - Mandatory CPR training for students may improve cardiac-arrest survival rate, MDs say
DP  - 1996 Oct 15
TA  - Canadian Medical Association Journal
PG  - 1172--1174
VI  - 155
IP  - 8
4099  - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/155/8/1172.short
4100  - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/155/8/1172.full
SO  - CMAJ1996 Oct 15; 155
AB  - A mandatory cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) program that started as a pilot project in Ottawa-area high schools is expanding to other Canadian schools. Besides CPR techniques, Grade 9 students are being taught about healthy lifestyles and how to recognize cardiac arrest. Emergency physician Justin Maloney, the program's principal architect, believes that in a decade this mandatory training will translate into increased bystander-initiated CPR and improved chances of survival for victims of cardiac arrest.