US State Laws on CPR in High Schools Based on Requirements (IMAGE)
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Bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is known to improve survival of cardiac arrest; however, there is a disparate geographic variation in cardiac arrest survival and only a small number of the US population is trained in CPR annually. According to the Institute for Medicine (IOM), high school students may be an excellent target for CPR training. A review published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology found that over half of US states require some form of CPR training in high school, but there is wide variability in instruction.
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