For safety and to prevent spread of respiratory disease we are asking all our American CPR Training^® Affiliate Instructors to follow precautionary practices and are recommending that our employees, clients and their staff do the same:

• Wash hands often with warm water and soap for at least 20 seconds – have fun timing it by humming or singing a refrain of "Stayin' Alive," by The Bee Gees (also a favorite song for performing CPR!)
• Avoid touching eyes, nose, or mouth. (The average person touches their face 15-23 times per hour without even realizing it!)
• Cover cough or sneeze using a bent elbow - not hand.
• Use hand sanitizer gel if soap and water is unavailable.
• Avoid close contact with people who are sick.
• If you sneeze, cover your mouth with a tissue, throw it in the trash, and wash your hands.
• Consider using a paper towel or tissue to open common area doors, wherever possible.
• If you do not feel well please stay home.

* An additional special recommendation for American CPR Training^® Instructors:

When training, it is still very important to include the 2 breaths when teaching regular C.A.R.E™ CPR, but during what has now been announced as a worldwide pandemic by WHO, we recommend you have the students “speak” the breath part during the hands-on training rather than actually breathing onto the manikin - even with the breathing barrier American CPR Training^® provides for every student in our student packs. Every course with American CPR™ also, of course, covers Compression Only CPR™ for students unwilling or unable to perform full CPR.

Also - remember to regularly sterilize and wipe down your manikins and AED trainers with disinfecting wipes after every class.