KIDS SAVE LIVES BRAZIL: A successful pilot program to implement CPR at primary and high schools in Brazil resulting in a state law for a training CPR week

Brazil is the biggest country in South America, with more than 207 million of inhabitants. From them, 15% of the population is in primary and high schools. The worldwide KIDS SAVE LIVES campaign1 –3 was first implemented in Brazil as KIDS SAVE LIVES BRAZIL by a group of associate professors, researchers and graduate students from multidisciplinary areas of University of São Paulo. KIDS SAVE LIVES BRAZIL program sought to train school community as all citizens can save a life4 to know, to identify and to take effective first actions in cardiac arrest, acute stroke and choke.

Source: Resuscitation - May 19, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: N.K. Nakagawa, L.M. Silva, R. Carvalho-Oliveira, K.M.G. Oliveira, F.R.A. Santos, M. Calderaro, H.P. Souza, L.A. Hajjar, E.V. Motta, P.W.G.N. Teixeira, S. Timmerman, F. Semeraro, M.J.C. Carvalho, B.W. B öttiger Tags: Letter to the Editor Source Type: research