Mass CPR training sessions scheduled

For the fifth year, the University’s Environmental Health and Safety Office (EHS) is sponsoring a mass training of hands-only cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Three training sessions will be held in the Barnhardt Student Activity Center on Thursday, Oct. 4.

Space is limited for the sessions, which will begin at 9:30, 10:30 and 11:30 a.m.; click on one of the times to register.

By partnering with Mecklenburg EMS Agency (MEDIC) to offer these mass CPR trainings, the EHS Office wants to increase bystander medical awareness about sudden cardiac arrest (SCA). Also, the office has a goal of upping the number campus personnel who know how to assist individuals in the event of SCA. For every minute proper CPR is delayed, it decreases an individual’s chance of survival by 10 percent.

MEDIC paramedics will instruct participants on the proper hand placement to perform compressions on a CPR manikin. In addition, they will review the use of automated external defibrillators (AEDs). The University has multiple AEDs located across campus, and the Oct. 4 training is an opportunity to learn how to use them in the case of an emergency.

Direct questions to Angela Allen or Julie Withers in the EHS Office at 704-687-1111 or email ehsoffice@uncc.edu.