By EMS1 Staff
WASHINGTON — EMS Week is underway and D.C. Fire and EMS is celebrating with a unique competition.
“May Madness” is a high-performance CPR challenge that encourages BLS providers to “own the code” and improve survival rates for cardiac arrest victims.
Over the course of the week, several units are split into teams twice a day to work on a CPR dummy that has been calibrated to feed data to a computer.
The grading criterion includes compression rate, proper ventilation, depth of compressions and more. Company officers are judged on commanding the team, controlling the scene and ensuring CPR performance quality.
The competition will continue next week, which is National CPR and AED Week. Winners will receive Mayor’s Suite tickets to one Washington Nationals game.
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