Community Members Take Advantage of Free CPR Training

North Fulton Regional Hospital offered its first ever CPR Marathon, open to the community at no cost, last Saturday, June 7. The result: two full, back-to-back classes of newly educated community members—equipped with their own personal manikin and instructional DVD—ready to go pass along their newly acquired knowledge to family members and friends.

“These skills are invaluable,” says North Fulton Regional Hospital Community Education Coordinator Diane Sanders, RN. “CPR has proven to save lives. By spreading the word and the knowledge, anyone can be someone else’s hero.”

And we mean anyone. The classes ranged in age from young teen to older adult, each person as eager as the next to participate and practice on their manikin. Unlike traditional CPR instructional manikins, these are intended to be taken home for additional practice and instruction. With an inflatable chest that (a) makes a “click” when compressed correctly and (b) rises when enough air is blown through, participants can easily see and hear whether they are doing CPR correctly. It is even adjustable for both a child and an adult, showing the different amounts of force that are necessary in order to properly perform CPR on different ages.

Even though those who participated in the classes did not receive a CPR certification card, they left with the confidence that they could help another person in need. For most people, this is all that is necessary.

“We plan to do this again in the future,” Sanders says. “When it comes to CPR training, there’s no such thing as too much.”

North Fulton Regional Hospital (NFRH), part of Tenet Georgia, is a 202-bed, acute-care hospital located on Highway 9, Alpharetta Highway, in Roswell. Opened in 1983, NFRH serves North Fulton and surrounding counties through its team of over 1000 employees, 400 staff physicians and 200 volunteers. NFRH is a state-designated Level II trauma center and provides a continuum of services through its centers and programs, including neurosciences, orthopedics, rehabilitation, surgical services, bariatric surgical weight loss, gastroenterology and oncology. The hospital is fully accredited and also is certified as a Primary Stroke Center by the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, the nation’s oldest and largest hospital accreditation agency.

For more information about community programs and events at North Fulton Regional Hospital, call 770-751-2660, or visit www.northfultonregional.com.