After giving chest compressions for two minutes, the students were ready for a break. They shook out their hands and let their breathing return to normal. The first 30 seconds felt like two minutes, said one seventh-grader.
“How do you guys do that?” another student asked instructor Corey Larson, a driver with the Superior Fire Department.
“Everyone works out,” he told them, and they rotate who is doing chest compressions because it’s so physically draining.
Every seventh-grader in the school — about 300 — was trained in hands-only CPR Wednesday. They understood the importance of what they were learning.
“You could save someone’s life,” said seventh-grader Hunter Saari. “You never know.”
In addition to CPR, students learned how to operate an Automated External Defibrillator and some basic first aid techniques. They also viewed a presentation on the dangers of vaping. All four topics were taught by members of the Superior Fire Department.
This is the fourth year in a row the entire seventh grade class has received CPR training in their health class. That equates to roughly 1,300 students who are equipped to take action if someone suffers a heart attack.
“It’s making an impact,” said health teacher Jill Anderson.
She said the training is interactive and connects students from all three wings, making it memorable.
Superior High School sophomore Dale Summerfield Jr. said the training made a big impression.
“I just remember using the dummies, pressing down on the chest, the light turning on when he was breathing again,” he said.
If he had to, the sophomore said he thinks he could give CPR today. He can remember where to place his hands and how quick the compressions have to be, but would like to see the high school offer a refresher course.
“I know some of the stuff you learn you kind of tend to forget about it,” Summerfield said. “If they bring it back, it will jog your memory and it will ... help save lives in the future.”
The CPR training fills an unfunded state mandate requiring Wisconsin schools to provide instruction in cardiopulmonary and cardiocerebral resuscitation. It could have been fulfilled by a video, said Superior Fire Chief Scott Gordon. Instead, Enbridge has sponsored CPR training all four years through the fire department’s paid-for services branch.
“Safety is one of our key values and a core priority at Enbridge,” said spokeswoman Juli Kellner. “It’s a wonderful opportunity to support what now has become an award-winning program. And it’s exciting to see children learning skills that have the potential to put them in a position to save lives in the community — neighbors, friends, family members.”
In 2017, the Superior Fire Department earned the Emergency Medical Services for Children Pediatric Champion of the Year Award for their CPR training efforts at the middle school.
Everybody can do CPR, Gordon said, and the life-saving skills the students learned Wednesday will go with them no matter where they are: riding a bike with friends, walking down the street, at home or out in the community.
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