DRISCOLL TO OFFER FREE PEDIATRIC CPR COURSE BECAUSE MOST LIFE-THREATENING EMERGENCIES INVOLVING CHILDREN OCCUR IN THE HOME

Driscoll Children’s Hospital FREE Friends & Family CPR (Pediatric Course)
Saturday, July 19, 2003 l 9 a.m. – 12 Noon (registration at 8:30 a.m.)
Driscoll Children’s Hospital l 3533 S. Alameda St. l Corpus Christi, TX
 Call (361) 694-5421 for more information
Deadline for sign-up is Friday, July 11, 2003

This is not a certification course.

(Corpus Christi, TX)  Each year, about 1.25 million people experience a heart attack in the U.S. with 500,000 resulting in death.  An emergency with an infant or child (ages birth to 8-years-old) is more likely to involve a breathing problem. It is important to consider learning safety measures, especially when you have children that depend on you.

With the continuous pursuit for childcare safety and the support of the American Heart Association, Driscoll Children’s Hospital will be offering a FREE Friends & Family Pediatric CPR Course. Free and open to the public, the three-hour course will take place on Saturday, July 19, 2003 from 9 a.m. until 12 Noon (registration at 8:30 a.m.) at the hospital.  Registration is limited to the first 30 people to enroll.  Deadline for registration is Friday, July 11, 2003.  This is not a certification course.

Designed to help learn and remember valuable lifesaving skills and knowledge, Driscoll’s Friends & Family Pediatric CPR course will teach:

• Signs of chocking in infants and children;

• Prevention of sudden infant death syndrome; 

• Prevention of most common fatal injuries in infants and children; and

• Rescuer skills will be taught for cardiopulmonary arrest in infants and children and relief of foreign-body airway obstruction in infants and children.

About Driscoll Children’s Hospital
“Improve the health of adults and you give them back their health …
Improve the health of children and you give them their life.”

Happy 50th birthday! Since opening its doors in 1953, Driscoll Children’s Hospital has been offering hope and healing the children of South Texas for half a century. The facility is a 200-bed pediatric tertiary care center with pediatric board-certified specialists representing 19 medical and nine surgical specialties. The facility’s referral area spans 31,000 square miles, making it larger than the state of South Carolina, and offers care to children throughout the Coastal Bend and Rio Grande Valley. Each year, more than 6,000 children are admitted for inpatient care, 5,000 for day surgery and 50,000 for outpatient primary and specialty care. The first South Texas hospital with emergency services exclusively for children, Driscoll provides emergency care to more than 40,000 children per year. Additionally, Driscoll maintains a state-of-the-art ground/air transport team, 20-bed pediatric intensive care unit, 40-bed neonatal intensive care unit, and a renowned pediatric intensive care program.

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