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City of Arlington Goes for World Record in CPR Training
Guinness Officials Set to Validate Record-Breaking Effort on Nov. 17

Oslo, Norway holds a Guinness World Record for the largest CPR training session with 3,692 participants. At 10 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 17, Arlington will attempt to surpass that mark when approximately 4,500 eighth-graders converge on Cowboys Stadium to learn cardio-pulmonary resuscitation techniques as part of a citywide initiative called CPaRlington.

Organizers have invited every Arlington Independent School District eighth-grader to participate in this massive training exercise. A Guinness World Records official adjudicator will be present to witness the event and validate the achievement, according to Battalion Chief of Medical Operations David Carroll with the Arlington Fire Department.

“Being able to train more people in one session than anyone else in the world is certainly noteworthy, and we’ll be proud of that,” said Arlington Mayor Robert Cluck. “But we’re not losing sight of the fact that this initiative really is a matter of life and death. The best way to increase survival rates for cardiac arrest victims is to equip bystanders with the knowledge of administering CPR.”

CPaRlington began in 2005 when Mayor Cluck, a physician, met with representatives of the American Heart Association (AHA), Arlington Fire Department and the UT-Arlington School of Nursing to discuss an initiative that could improve cardiac arrest survival. While normal certification for CPR requires a six-to eight-hour commitment, one can learn to administer emergency CPR in only 22 minutes.

Since the program began, approximately 25,140 Arlington residents have been trained.
This world record training event won’t be the first time the City of Arlington has led CPR on a large scale. In April 2006, the CPaRlington “First Pitch” event resulted in more than 200 people learning CPR in one afternoon in the outfield of the Rangers Ballpark in Arlington.

Media Notice: Excellent video and photo opportunities of large-scale training exercise in Cowboys Stadium.

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