Client: Announcements
Date: February 22, 2011 ​

BC Ambulance Service (BCAS) Unit Chiefs, Scott Spain and Norene Parke helped make saving the lives of those in cardiac arrest a little easier last week, when they provided CPR and defibrillator training to several high school staff members in Hazelton, BC.

The training was part of the high school CPR program; a partnership between BCAS, the Advanced Coronary Treatment (ACT) Foundation (a national charitable organization dedicated to school-based CPR) and CUPE Union 873 that provides CPR training to high school teachers across the province so they can teach this life saving skill to their students.

The training was especially important in this community as the area has a high prevalence of long QT syndrome, an uncommon inherited heart rhythm disorder, among First Nations communities.