Kids Save Lives

With this project, the Program officialized the occasional voluntary activities carried out previously by some teachers and students related to the Basic Life Support (BLS) training for students and teachers of Basic Education. The project Learning to Save Lives was created and, in October 2015, the training in basic life support and use of automatic electric defibrillator was begun in high schools of the public network of São Paulo Metropolitan Area and for high school students that take part of the project "Aprentice" of Centro de Integração Empresa-Escola (CIEE), at Hospital das Clínicas of the School of Medicine of Universidade de São Paulo.

In 2016, the project was renamed as Crianças Salvam Vidas, after contact with researcher Bernd W. Böttiger of the Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany. This anesthesiologist develops Kids Save Lives project, with support from the World Health Organization, and has recent publications on its results. A future partnership with this professional is planned to align this project with that carried out in Germany.

The initial phase of implementation of the Project was coordinated by Prof. Maria José Carvalho Carmona and Prof. Joaquim Edson Vieira, with the participation of Dr. Matheus Fachini Vane and Dr. Guinther Giroldo Badessa, under the supervision of Prof. José Otávio Costa Auler Junior and collaboration of the Professor of the Discipline of Anesthesiology of UNIESP, Luiz Fernando Falcão.

In October 2019, the Kids Save Lives project was part of the World Restart a Heart campaign, promoting activities on the World Resurrect a Heart Day, celebrated on the October 16th. The initiative was carried out at the Hospital das Clinicas Complex, the USP Medical School, the USP Butantã Campus and schools in São Paulo.

Using high fidelity dummies and AED equipment (Automated External Defibrillator), the Kids Save Lives team, coordinated by Prof. Naomi Kondo Nakagawa and Prof. Maria José Carmona, offered training for initial care and basics of BLS (Basic Life Support) in cases of cardiac arrest.

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On 29 September 2017, Discipline of Anesthesiology, FMUSP, promoted the training in "Basic Life Support" (BLS) for the administrative assistant young apprentices of the "Program of Basic-Level Professional Education Development"

Under the supervision of Prof. Maria José Carvalho Carmona, the training was conducted by the instructors Dr. Matheus Fachini Vane and Dr. Guinther Giroldo Badessa. The activity was carried out in the FMUSP Laboratory of Skills with the participation of the following apprentices:

1. Anna Clara da Gama Silva
2. Aline Aparecida Ferla Barbosa
3. Aline de Andrade Moura
4. Aline Sanchez
5. Bruno Fernando Santana de Souza
6. Beatriz Medeiros da Silva
7. Caroliny da Silva Lima
8. Cassia Pereira da Silva
9. Danilo de Paula Bezerra
10. Felipe Ferreira Calixto Eliziario
11. Gabriela Martins
12. Gabriel Fernando Silvino de Lima
13. Gabriel Henrique Xavier de Oliveira
14. Julyane Saraiva Monteiro
15. Jaqueline Santos da Silva
16. Letícia Santos da Silva
17. Luciana Souza Pereira da Costa
18. Luis Gustavo Alencar Azevedo
19. Kaique de Freitas
20. Mariana Santos Pereira
21. Monique Marjorie Sousa David
22. Pedro Henrique Santana Pereira
23. Sofia Souza Ferreira
24. Sophia Loriato de Souza
25. Vinicius Batista Forte
26. Wesley Henrique Botelho Cunha
27. Yasmin de França Wanderley

In 2016, 30 Secondary School students, who were interns of the "Apprentice" Project of Centro de Integração Escola-Empresa (CIEE) at Hospital das Clínicas of the School of Medicine of Universidade de São Paulo, were trained in Kids Save Lives program. Below is the list of the trained students and the school of origin:

1. Ian Faias da Silva Belo (Escola Estadual Batista Cepelos)
2. Willian de Lima Ribeiro (Escola Estadual Tadakiyo Sakai)
3. Gabriela Raissa Verissimo Alves (Escola Estadual David Zeiger)
4. Matheus Batista Silva dos Santos (Escola Estadual Carlos de Moraes Andrade)
5. Washington Shaw da Silva (Escola Estadual Santo Dias da Silva)
6. Ana Carolina Borges de Oliveira (Escola Estadual Herbert Baldus)
7. Larissa Mickeli Lima da Silva (Colégio Porcino Rodrigues)
8. Danilo Brito Silva (Escola Estadual Prof. Luiz Simione Sobrinho)
9. Lucas Sales Borges dos Santos (Escola Estadual Professor Olzanetti Gomes)
10. Josué dos Santos Rabello da Cruz (Escola Estadual Samuel Wainer)
11. Renan Oseias Rocha (Escola Estadual Basilio Bosniac)
12. Douglas Santos F. da Cruz (Escola Estadual Ilda Vieira Vilela)
13. Kaliane Costa de Oliveira (Escola Mun.Ens.Fund. Leonardo Villas Boas)
14. Emily Rezende Sobrinho (Escola Estadual Walter Negrelli)
15. Nathalia Karoline Silva e Silva (Escola Estadual Alexandre Rodrigues Nogueira)
16. Soraya Santos Maia de Oliveira (Escola Estadual Prof. Orlando Mendes de Moraes)
17. Alisson de Sousa Holanda (Escola Estadual Deputado Salomão Jorge)
18. Isaac Cassiano de Santana (Escola Estadual Deputado João Dória)
19. Hiago Arruda Soares Silva (Escola Estadual Irmã Iria Kunz)
20. José Artur de Oliveira Nunes (Escola Estadual Prof. Antonio Ruy Cardoso)
21. Sara Gabriele de Paula (Escola Estadual Ana Rodrigues de Liso)
22. Natan Cesar Sousa Calixto (Escola Estadual Major Telmo Coelho Filho)
23. Atilla Candido Portela (Escola Estadual Eunice Marques de Moura Bastos)
24. Anderson Pereira da Silva (Escola Estadual Toufic Joulian)
25. Carlos Melquiades de Sena (Escola Estadual Prof. Landia Santos Batista)
26. Victor Hugo Xavier Moraes (Escola Estadual Aquilino Ribeiro)
27. Raquel Dias Martins da Silva (Escola Estadual Washington Alves Natel)
28. Erika Pereira de Oliveira Galdino (Escola Estadual Prof. Antonio Bernardes de Oliveira)
29. Mateus Schio Amancio de Sousa (Escola Estadual Prof. Lucia de Castro Bueno)
30. Amanda da Silva Santos (Escola Estadual Washington Alves Natel)

The training was carried out at the Escola Estadual de Ensino Fundamental e Médio Zacarias Antonio da Silva, in Cotia, São Paulo. At the time, the teacher assigned to follow the activity in the college and the teacher of Physical Education of the class were also trained. Below are the names of the 33 trained students:

1. Aline Silva Batista
2. Amaury Silva dos Anjos
3. Ananda da Silva Carrião
4. Beatriz Carneiro Araújo
5. Bruna Ferreira
6. Daniel Santana Gomes
7. Danilo Gabriel C. Silva
8. Delson Bernardo
9. Denilson Silva de Jesus (aprentice, CIEE)
10. Ellyson Soares
11. Guilherme de Lima Domingo
12. Iago Corradi Carvalho
13. Jaqueline Aparecida Costa Rosa
14. Jéssica da Silva Marcelino
15. João Pedro Casemiro Salviano
16. John Maiki Ferreira Santos Silva
17. Jonathan Alves Alcântara
18. Karoline Raiany Sena Pinheiro Viana
19. Larissa da Silva Nascimento
20. Leonardo da Silva
21. Leticia di Felippo Bortolucci
22. Luana Dionísio Moraes
23. Lucas Sales Borges dos Santos (aprentice, CIEE)
24. Lucas Soares Faustino
25. Mario Sergio Silva Leão
26. Nathalie Eachi
27. Pablo Barbosa de Souza
28. Rafaela Sergio Borges
29. Ricardo Francisco da Silva
30. Soraia Rocha de Oliveira
31. Stefane Silva Dantas
32. Tacyane Moraes Moreira
33. Thaynná Stephany Barboza Costa

Project justification: The cardiopulmonary arrest (CPA) is urgent that demand fast service, since the tolerance of organs to low amount of oxygen is very limited situations. Only 3-4 minutes already PCR is sufficient to cause irreversible brain damage.

Thus, diagnosis and initial management should be made as soon as possible. However, every three victims of cardiac arrest, only one gets help from a passerby. Whereas in Brazil there are around 200,000 PCR annually, half outside the hospital. Thus, it can be estimated that more than 33,000 cases of PCR fail to be met by ignorance of the population, lack of security in care or fear.

Several countries in an attempt to reduce the unfavorable outcomes of PCR incorporated into school curricula classes for cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the use of external defibrillators. The high schools are perfect places to spread the knowledge of the subject for the population, since teens can do chest compression with the same efficacy as an adult and are often present in medical emergency scene.

Simple measures, such as learning to recognize the symptoms, and mainly realize the proximity of a cardiac arrest, ask for help to the emergency services and begin chest compressions properly can increase up to four times the odds of survival. The proposed project, to be implemented officially from the year 2015, provides life with theoretical and practical activities around three hours and voluntary participation of teachers and students of the Graduate Program.

Project objectives: The objective isteach basic life support practices to be applied in patients with cardiac arrest, for high school students and teachers. As an educational goal is expected to course participants acquire knowledge to recognize a cardiac arrest, the severity and urgency of the frame. Among the skills, it is expected that at the end of the course students know initiate treatment of a cardiac arrest, summon help correctly, perform chest compression technique and properly handle an automatic electric defibrillator, demonstrating proactivity in the conduct of cardiopulmonary arrest.

Activity description: the training activity will be carried out with short theoretical presentation followed by practical activity with mannequins. The training of the students will be divided into small groups (maximum 20 students) for carrying out the proposed schedule. Each session will be taught by four teachers, selected from among teachers and students of the Graduate Program in Anesthesiology, Surgical Sciences, and Perioperative Medicine and prequalified for the basic support of teaching life.

Classes are taught in theoretical format for introduction to the subject, followed by practical training with mannequins for training and training in basic support procedure of life.

Evaluation: student participation in the theoretical and practical activity, self-evaluation and comparison of the post-test with the pre-test will be evaluated.

The first two editions were financially supported by the Center for Anesthesiology and Resuscitation Studies (CEDAR). For future training, the partnership between CEDAR, the Phillips company (which supports some Basic Life Support projects with the adult population) and the Anesthesiology Society of São Paulo is underway. This partnership will allow the training of a larger number of students at each session and the definitive implementation of the project.

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