By Joshua Jamerson
Columbus Dispatch
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Not knowing whether “Anne” had suffered a heart attack or been waylaid by a criminal, central Ohio families packed COSI Columbus yesterday to ask her if she was OK.
Anne was oblivious to the attention. She is, after all, a resuscitation dummy.
The Columbus Division of Fire’s EMS and Safety Day kicked off EMS Week, a national awareness effort designed to tune communities into the challenges that their emergency medical-service workers face. Above all, they’d like Columbus-area residents to learn how to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation by using learning aids such as “Resusci Anne.”
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