Updates to the American Heart Association’s CPR and emergency cardiovascular care guidelines have a long tail, as changes are incorporated into practice and educators and institutions modify training. So it is with the most recent tweaks, and a presentation at the Citizen CPR Foundation’s 2020 virtual summit explored what they mean for training lay responders in CPR.
Speaker Robert Chambers, RN, from the Texas-based AHA training partner RC Health Services, focused on the priorities of preparing for lay responder training, sharing best practices, and the implications of the guidelines on such efforts.
Interim training materials reflecting the changes represent the first step. Those are already available from the AHA Instructor Network for immediate use. Chambers outlined some relevant key areas of change: