CPR Sunday 2024 is scheduled for Sunday, October 13th, 2024 at Henry Foss High School. Due to popular demand, additional sessions have now been added for Saturday, October 12th, 2024 at the Eastside Community Center. Event Registration for all sessions will be opened on Monday, August 5th at 7:00am. Please visit our Event Registration page to sign up.
Free CPR Education for Our Community
CPR Saturday/Sunday is an annual community event offered free-of-charge to anyone interested in learning the basic life-saving skills of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). On the second Saturday and Sunday in October each year, students are taught the fundamentals of CPR and then given the opportunity to practice with CPR mannequins and Automatic External Defibrillators (AED). Upon successful completion of the course, students receive a Tacoma Fire Department CPR certification card. Over 14,000 participants have attended this life saving class.
What Attendees Can Expect
- More than 50 certified Basic Life Support instructors
- 1 1/2 hours of classroom lecture plus 1 hour of hands on training
- Practical training with CPR manikins and automated external defibrillators (AEDs)
- You will receive a CPR card upon course completion
- The course does not meet BLS HCP requirements and does not cover first aid
What Attendees Will Learn
- What happens when you call 9-1-1
- The new CPR guidelines: C-A-B-D
- Patient assessment
- One rescuer adult/child/infant CPR and obstructed airway
- Automated external defibrillator use
- How to recognize Opioid overdose signs and symptoms, and the use of the reversal agent Narcan/Naloxone
- Foreign body airway obstruction management
- Essentials of a home first aid kit
- CPR-related information/reminder list for home and wallet