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Apr 9, 2009 5:55 pm US/Central
New Way To Learn And Teach CPR With Mini-Annie
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Now students use a Mini-Annie, an inflatable training mannequin that is small and cheap enough to give to everyone.
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Teenagers have been taking CPR classes for years. On Thursday, the seventh grade class at Breck experimented with a new thing -- a new way to teach them CPR that also gives them the tools and techniques to teach others.
For the kids at Breck, the CPR class was an eye-opening experience.
"It's so different than like what you see people do," said seventh-grader Niara Hill. "It's like totally different and much harder than what you think it is."
It's not their parents' CPR class. Gone are the days of CPR Sally. Now students use a Mini-Annie, an inflatable training mannequin that is small and cheap enough to give to everyone. It also lets the class learn as a group and it can be set to simulate different patients.
"It was at times hard," said Parker Montgomery, a seventh grader, "when you had to press on the chest, especially when it was an adult it was a lot harder than a child. Different settings made it harder and easier."
Mini-Annie comes in a box, with a DVC and other learning aids, perfect to take home, practice, and then try to teach their families -- a reason why the students were selected in the first place.
Paul Satterlee, Emergency Physician at Abbott Northwestern Hospital explained that "seventh graders have been shown to be the age group of children that learn the best in this setting, take it seriously, are interested in doing it, and most importantly they'll go home and they'll work hard at teaching their family how to do it too."
"I will," said student Charlie Oberrender. "It's an important thing to know how to save a person's life, so I'll teach as many people as I can."
"It was fun here, so I think it might be fun to teach them and see if they can do it," Parker said.
Allina Hospitals and the Minneapolis Heart Institute donated the learning kits for the kids at Breck.
You can
order them for yourself from the American Heart Association. They cost $35 plus shipping and handling.
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