UCSD model predicts that reaching ambitious goal could save nearly 500 lives over five years High school students practiced hands-only cardiopulmonary resuscitation in downtown San Diego on Thursday, their efforts literally pushing toward the goal of training 1 million people across the county in lifesaving techniques that new findings from UC San Diego estimate could save nearly 500 local lives over five years. Run by San Diego Project Heart Beat, the training session for 35 students at E3 High School is among many existing efforts countywide recently pulled together under the banner of Revive & Survive, a new collaborative effort to increase CPR training . Working together, the county health department and Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health at UCSD launched the effort in February, using their combined clout to set a public goal of 1 million bystander CPR trainings and dubbing the effort Revive & Survive.
The idea, explained Cheryl Anderson, Wertheim’s dean, is to inspire the public to get so excited about meeting the goal that enrollment in CPR training programs increases rapidly. Already, she said, 25 organizations, including the local chapters of the Red Cross and American Heart Association, are participating. “We really want to mobilize all bystander CPR training activities within the county such that their doors are being knocked on every single day by residents who want to be trained,” Anderson said.
Toward that end, Revive & Survive maintains a local list .
