2023-06-27 02:32:39
By Chara
In the Latino community, fear and language barriers often prevent individuals from providing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), a life-saving first-aid technique used when someone goes into cardiac arrest.
Various organizations are trying to address those issues.
One such organization is the University of Virginia Latino Health Initiative (LHI). As the American Heart Association (AHA) reported in a June 1 story on its website, the LHI conducts CPR classes in Spanish in central Virginia.
“We address the hesitation, we address the fears,” Dr. Max Luna, a cardiologist and director of the LHI at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, was quoted by the AHA as saying. “We focus on getting people comfortable with CPR.”
Research shows that Hispanics and African-Americans, including kids, who experience cardiac arrest in public spaces “are less likely than their white peers to receive CPR from a lay responder,” the AHA stated.
Initiative Aims to Overcome CPR Obstacles in the Latino Community
In the Latino community, fear and language barriers often prevent people from providing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), a life-saving first aid technique used when someone is in cardiac arrest.
Several organizations are trying to address those problems.
One of them is the University of Virginia Latino Health Initiative (LHI). As the American Heart Association (AHA) reported in a June 1 article on its website, LHI runs CPR classes in Spanish in central Virginia.
“We address the doubts, we address the fears,” the AHA quoted Dr. Max Luna, a cardiologist and director of the LHI at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, as saying. “We focus on getting people comfortable with CPR.”
Research shows that Hispanics and African-Americans, including children, who suffer cardiac arrest in public spaces “are less likely than their white peers to receive CPR from a lay responder,” the AHA said.
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