DRISCOLL OFFERS FIRST AID COURSE &
ADULT AND PEDIATRIC HEARTSAVER CPR COURSE

Pediatric & Adult Heartsaver CPR (3.5-hour course)
Monday, July 28, 2003 l 8:30 a.m. – 12 Noon
Cost - $40 (this is a certification course)
Pediatric & Adult First Aid Course (2.5-hour course)
Monday, July 28, 2003 l 12:30 – 3 p.m.
Cost - $25 (this is a certification course)
Cost – Both courses $55 (savings of $10)
Driscoll Children’s Hospital l 3533 S. Alameda St. l Corpus Christi, TX
(361) 694-5420 for more information or registration
Deadline for sign-up is Wednesday, July 9, 2003

(Corpus Christi, TX) Actions taken in the first few minutes of a pediatric or adult emergency can make the difference between life and death. Training is the only way to make the appropriate action feel like a natural response whether its first aid or CPR. In an effort to improve the health and safety of children and with the support of the American Heart Association, Driscoll Children’s Hospital is offering Pediatric and Adult First Aid as well as Pediatric and Adult CPR Heartsaver courses. Both courses will take place on Monday, July 28, 2003 at the hospital. Registration is limited. Deadline for registration is Monday, July 21, 2003.

Driscoll’s two and a half-hour Pediatric and Adult First Aid certification course is suitable to parents, foster parents, as well as childcare workers, and includes:

• Basic first aid safety
• Medical emergencies (breathing, allergic reactions, chest pain, diabetes, stroke and seizure);
• Injury emergencies (bleeding you can’t see, shock, head or spine, bone, join or muscle, heat burns, electrical burns); and
• Environmental injuries (animal bites, snake bites, insect bites, bee stings, frost bite, hypothermia, heat related, poisonings)

Driscoll’s three and a half-hour Pediatric and Adult Heartsaver CPR certification course is suitable for childcare workers, security guards, as well as parents and foster parents and includes:

• Chain of survival for infants, children, and adults;
• Warning signs of heart attack, cardiac arrest, stroke, and choking;
• Prevention of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS);
• Prevention of most common fatal injuries in infants and children; and
• Rescuer skills will be taught for cardiopulmonary arrest in infants, children and adults, and relief of foreign-body airway obstruction in infants, children and adults.

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 to 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 and 40-bed neonatal intensive care unit, renowned pediatric intensive care program, specialized medical outreach to the children of South Texas.

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