On Thursday, Westland High School (WHS) was recognized by Nationwide Children’s Hospital as their program’s 100th Project ADAM Heart Safe School in the State of Ohio. Project ADAM is a comprehensive program of sudden cardiac arrest preparedness that aims to prevent death in children and adolescents through education and implementation of life-saving programs.
While WHS was bestowed with the honors of being the 100th overall school to become Project ADAM accredited, all South-Western City high schools have completed the training this school year and will hold the cardiac preparedness desination. As a part of each school’s training for Project ADAM, Cardiac Emergency Response Teams were created and trained on how to provide life saving measures.
Project ADAM began in 1999 after a series of sudden deaths among high school athletes in southeastern Wisconsin, including 17-year-old Adam Lemel. Many of these deaths appeared to be due to ventricular fibrillation, a condition in which the ventricles cannot pump blood into the body. Adam’s parents, Patty and Joe Lemel, collaborated with the Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin to create this program in Adam’s memory.
Project ADAM helps schools nationwide implement programs to make automated external defibrillators (AEDs) readily available by preparing schools for a cardiac emergency through emergency response plans, staff CPR and AED training, student CPR education, and sudden cardiac arrest awareness education.
Congratulations to all SWCSD high schools for receiving this designation and congratulations to WHS for their honors as the 100th school to complete the program.
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