The Florida Department of Education passed an amendment which contains the new requirement on Wednesday to rule 6A-3.0121. That rule requires school bus operators and aides be given written instructions about any special conditions or non-medical care that a student may need while aboard a school bus. This change is a result of the death of a special needs student who had a seizure on the bus in 2018. The driver [...]
What are the 2015 CPR bystander recommendations? Bystanders should first call 911. Untrained bystanders should perform Hands-Only — or compression-only — CPR, which remains an effective tool in saving lives from cardiac arrest. However, the new guidelines recommend that if a bystander is trained in CPR and can perform breaths, he or she should add breaths in a cycle of 30 compressions and two breaths. What updates have been made [...]
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