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CPR Preparedness Across Massachusetts Public High Schools: A Statewide Cross-Sectional Study

2025-12-29 emergency medicine Title + abstract only
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BackgroundOut-of-hospital cardiac arrest accounts for over 350,000 deaths annually in the United States, and survival depends on early bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Although many cardiac arrests occur on or near school grounds, Massachusetts has no statewide CPR graduation requirement and little current data on school preparedness. MethodsWe conducted a cross-sectional electronic survey of all 413 public high schools in Massachusetts (including charter, vocational, and technica...

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