The Maria de los Santos Health Center in North Philadelphia has launched a Spanish-speaking, hands-only CPR kiosk, aimed at improving CPR training in the Hispanic and Latino community. This initiative addresses a significant gap in bystander CPR assistance, as Latinos are 40% less likely to receive CPR. The kiosk provides accessible, self-paced training to help community members learn vital lifesaving skills. Health professionals emphasize the importance of removing barriers to education and training in enhancing cardiac arrest survival rates. This center serves over 23,000 patients yearly, highlighting its role as a primary healthcare provider in the area.
Walking the individual through the different movements, hand placement, how to press down and deeper is instrumental in teaching them how to do it.
Health centers like this are pillars in Philadelphia's neighborhoods.
So being able to remove barriers to access and education and bring the kiosk to where patients are already coming is really going to be beneficial in helping us to improve bystander response rates.
It allows people to get that hands-on education and feeling, it'll be a muscle memory in hopes that they will act in case of an emergency.
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