DAYTON — A new innovation in CPR training is launching in the Miami Valley next month.
Kettering Health, in partnership with the American Heath Association, is gearing up to launch a new mobile hands-only CPR training kiosk in February.
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The training kiosk will provide hands-only CPR training to people in five minutes or less, according to a spokesperson for the American Heart Association.
“The Kiosk features a touchscreen video program with a brief introduction and overview of Hands-Only CPR, followed by a practice session and a 30-second test,” the spokesperson said in a release.
The practice manikin on the kiosk will help it to give feedback about the depth and rate of compressions and proper hand placement.
Alina Joseph, executive director of the Heart & Vascular Service Line at Kettering Health, said the hospital network was proud to be part of this “important initiative.”
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“Offering this life-saving education aligns perfectly with our mission to improve the quality of life in the communities we serve and provides another opportunity to extend our healing ministry outside the walls of our medical centers,” Joseph said. “With Dayton’s history of innovation, it is appropriate for the country’s first mobile hands-only CPR kiosk to be launching here.”
The mobile kiosk opens next month at Wright State University. From there, it will be moved to nine different host sites over three years.