Beginning at 10 a.m., 100 school buses began
unloading students for a record-setting event at Cowboys Stadium.
By 11:45 a.m., a Guinness adjudicator officially declared Arlington,
TX a new world record holder for CPR training with 4,626
participants.
Until today, Oslo, Norway held the world record for the largest CPR
training session with 3,692 participants.
“This world record shows our commitment to increasing knowledge
about CPR and growing the survival rates for cardiac arrest victims
in our schools, homes and communities,” said Mayor Robert Cluck.
On Tuesday, 4,626 students gathered on the football field at Cowboys
Stadium to learn CPR techniques. They viewed an instructional DVD on
the Jumbo-Tron that walked them through each step of training, using
a manikin to do chest compressions and rescue breathing.
