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CPR Certification Coming to Blair

Blairs health classes will be incorporating CPR and AED certification into the course
beginning next year.
According to Blair health teacher John Macdonald, The importance of CPR Training for
students is in providing them with the skills and knowledge to potentially save a life.
Studies have shown that children as young as 9 years old can learn and retain CPR skills.
According to the American Heart Association, Sudden cardiac arrest can happen to anyone at
any time. Many victims appear healthy with no known heart disease or other risk factors.
The inclusion of CPR and AED certification in the health curriculum will help students
feel more comfortable in assisting someone if they go into cardiac arrest. CPR/ AED
certification should not only benefit Blair students, but humanity as a whole. Eventually, all
people who went to an MCPS high school will have been certified and even if that certification
expires, they will have some experience in rescue breathing and AED operations, said
Macdonald.