When 15-year-old high school student Shelby witnessed her grandfather (78) suffer a heart attack, she wasn’t about to let him become a statistic. About 9 out of 10 people who suffer cardiac arrest will die, but Shelby had learned CPR just days before her grandfather toppled over backwards and quit breathing. Shelby told her grandmother […]

He was technically dead.His heart had stopped beating.His clothes were burning. And two bystanders started CPR on the 12-year-old boy, saving his life. Today, Ken Nilson is a firefighter in Bremerton, Washington. “It was an experience that would profoundly change my life forever,” explains Nilson. He makes it a point to teach young children ways […]

Illinois Governor Pat Quinn set a standard all states should emulate when he signed a bill requiring Illinois high school students to have mandatory CPR and defibrillator training. The CPR bill was introduced to lawmakers by several families who had high school aged children that experienced cardiac emergencies while on campus. The law allows students […]