HOCPR Train-the-Trainer Session

Hwarang’s Medical Committee hosted a Train-the-Trainer Session for Hands-Only CPR (HOCPR) in partnership with the LA County Public Health Department’s Heart Heroes Campaign.

At the beginning of the year, LA County Public Health launched a Heart Heroes Campaign with a goal of training half a million community members in hands-only CPR by the end of the 2023 year.

During today’s training, thirty-one Hwarang members, including eight parents, learned about the signs, symptoms, and differences of cardiac arrest and heart attack. They were also given the opportunity to demonstrate and practice the steps leading up to performing hands-only CPR for adults and teens. Alexis Lee, a Hwarang member, “felt that this lesson was very valuable as there is an increasing number of people experiencing heart problems.”

After the training, the participants received a Certificate of Hands-Only CPR Trainer and an inflatable HOCPR manikin that they can now use to train their friends, families, and other community members.

Although Yeram Lee, a new member of the Medical Committee, is “not entirely sure if [he] can stay calm during the whole process,” he “[plans] to make sure to master this [skill] just in case someone around [him] gets a cardiac arrest.” Our Hwarang members and parents are grateful to be given the opportunity to learn and share this life-saving skill with the community around us and hope to contribute to LA County’s Heart Heroes Campaign.