YOU are on your way home after school. Suddenly, you see a man lying on the road. He is badly injured but the ambulance (急救车) hasn't come yet, what would you do? Middle school students in Louisville, US, would give the man a cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR, 心肺复苏). It is a type of first aid. That is because they learn CPR in class.
Louisville started the CPR Anytime program months ago. The program teaches middle school students CPR with face and lung dummies (仿制品) and DVDs in class. "We know CPR can help save people's lives," said Joseph Laskowski, who works for the program. "The more people can use CPR, the more injured people can get help. And we know that the best way to teach CPR skills to everyone is to build it into our school."
Through the program, students learn and practice the CPR skills on a dummy while watching a DVD. Each student can also take back home a set of faces and lung bag dummies so that they can use them to share CPR with family and friends.
Shawna Jackson is a 12-year-old student at Lassiter Middle School in Louisville. In one class, she learned to press down on a dummy and do chest compressions (压缩). She said that she found CPR was very difficult the first time she tried it, but now she feels "it's quite easy."
Jackson is very glad that she has learned this important skill for saving people's lives. "If I'm somewhere and I see someone who is injured, I can help him or her until the ambulance arrives," said Jackson.
