Overview

• Marcel Bösel says two hours per year of CPR training are enough to teach students how to perform effective chest compressions
• JRK attributes stalled implementation to insufficient funding and lack of political commitment at the state level
• The Kultusministerkonferenz endorsed the measure in 2014 but most federal states have yet to integrate it into their curricula
• Wider adoption of school-based resuscitation courses could avert at least 10,000 fatalities from cardiac arrest, according to JRK
• The organization’s membership has climbed by 20,000 to 160,000, with 45,000 youths serving in school medical units and growing concerns over leadership shortages